S Max Edelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Max Edelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Edelson |
| SIGNATURE | EDELSON S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Catawba Counter-Cartographies
When English colonizers arrived along the shores of the North American Southeast in 1670, they created new maps of their colony that opened the Native interior to view. The first published maps of South Carolina distorted the truth of this indigenous world. Over the next fifty years, Charlestown, South Carolina, became a destination for Native visitors, who had opportunities to view colonial maps in person. In the 1720s, the Catawbas presented So…
The Virginia Venture
The History of Cartography. Volume 4
Searching for Cofitachequi
A leur arrivée en Caroline en 1670, les colons anglais s’appuyèrent sur la connaissance que possédaient les Espagnols de la géographie et de l’ethnographie des territoires situés au sud-est de l’Amérique du Nord afin de mieux comprendre les peuples et les lieux se trouvant à l’intérieur du continent. Cet ensemble de textes et de cartes répertoriaient les entradas de De Soto et de Prado et dessinaient un paysage composé de chefferies puissantes, r…
Geographies of an Imperial Power
Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815, by Jeremy Black." Imago Mundi, 71(2), p. 223
Landscape and Material Culture in British Plantation America
Landscape and Material Culture in British Plantation America S. Max Edelson Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies. By Jefferson Dillman. Atlantic Crossings. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. 259 pages. Cloth, ebook. Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. By Emma Hart. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 288 pages. Paper. Originally publish…
The New Map of Empire
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution
Richard S. Dunn. A Tale of Two Plantations
Some forty years ago Richard Dunn envisioned a new history of American slavery constructed around the life histories of enslaved people. To locate these lost lives, he began analyzing troves of data that slave-owners kept to account for the births, deaths, and labor of their slaves on two plantation enterprises, one centered in Virginia and the other in Jamaica. This comparative approach allowed Dunn to incorporate the neglected Caribbean into a …
Historical Maps of the United States; and Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Digital Collection
An Empire of Small Places
Those expecting early American life to be contained within the borders of tidy jurisdictions will be surprised by this new spatial history of the North American Southeast in the eighteenth century
Surveyors of Empire
Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina
Beyond “Black Rice”
IN PURSUIT OF THE IDEA THAT enslaved African farmers introduced rice agriculture to the Americas, scholars have constructed an elaborate argument to make the case for this transatlantic transfer of knowledge and practice.They have traced the passages of captives from Upper Guinea to the labor camps of the Carolina Lowcountry, drawn parallels between cultivation methods in Africa and America, and speculated about how slaves who understood how to p…
American Mediterranean
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95 Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95. S. Max Edelson S. Max Edelson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [All reviewers of books by Indiana Univer…
Reproducing plantation society
Some women in colonial South Carolina inherited, possessed, and sold real property. This article examines how and why women took on roles as landowners. Such practices were part of a range of innovative strategies designed to hand down plantation capital to the next generation. High mortality rates in the region challenged white families as they sought to establish their children within the planter class. Recent scholarship on women in South Caro…
Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests
S. Max Edelson, Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests: Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry, Agricultural History, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 381-406
Black Rice
In a provisions plot in South Carolina, some time after 1670, an African farmer probably sowed the colony'first rice seed. Planting a familiar food crop was an act that reverberated with unforeseen power to shape one of colonial British America'most productive and oppressive plantation economies. Judith A. Carney's Black Rice reconstructs the journey by which west African cultivators transferred “indigenous knowledge systems” centered on the prod…
Beyond “Black Rice”
IN PURSUIT OF THE IDEA THAT enslaved African farmers introduced rice agriculture to the Americas, scholars have constructed an elaborate argument to make the case for this transatlantic transfer of knowledge and practice.They have traced the passages of captives from Upper Guinea to the labor camps of the Carolina Lowcountry, drawn parallels between cultivation methods in Africa and America, and speculated about how slaves who understood how to p…
American Mediterranean
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95 Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95. S. Max Edelson S. Max Edelson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [All reviewers of books by Indiana Univer…
Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests
S. Max Edelson, Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests: Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry, Agricultural History, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 381-406
Black Rice
In a provisions plot in South Carolina, some time after 1670, an African farmer probably sowed the colony'first rice seed. Planting a familiar food crop was an act that reverberated with unforeseen power to shape one of colonial British America'most productive and oppressive plantation economies. Judith A. Carney's Black Rice reconstructs the journey by which west African cultivators transferred “indigenous knowledge systems” centered on the prod…
Reproducing plantation society
Some women in colonial South Carolina inherited, possessed, and sold real property. This article examines how and why women took on roles as landowners. Such practices were part of a range of innovative strategies designed to hand down plantation capital to the next generation. High mortality rates in the region challenged white families as they sought to establish their children within the planter class. Recent scholarship on women in South Caro…
Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests
S. Max Edelson, Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests: Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry, Agricultural History, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 381-406
American Mediterranean
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95 Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. 237. $39.95. S. Max Edelson S. Max Edelson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [All reviewers of books by Indiana Univer…
Beyond “Black Rice”
IN PURSUIT OF THE IDEA THAT enslaved African farmers introduced rice agriculture to the Americas, scholars have constructed an elaborate argument to make the case for this transatlantic transfer of knowledge and practice.They have traced the passages of captives from Upper Guinea to the labor camps of the Carolina Lowcountry, drawn parallels between cultivation methods in Africa and America, and speculated about how slaves who understood how to p…
Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina
Surveyors of Empire
An Empire of Small Places
Those expecting early American life to be contained within the borders of tidy jurisdictions will be surprised by this new spatial history of the North American Southeast in the eighteenth century
Historical Maps of the United States; and Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Digital Collection
Richard S. Dunn. A Tale of Two Plantations
Some forty years ago Richard Dunn envisioned a new history of American slavery constructed around the life histories of enslaved people. To locate these lost lives, he began analyzing troves of data that slave-owners kept to account for the births, deaths, and labor of their slaves on two plantation enterprises, one centered in Virginia and the other in Jamaica. This comparative approach allowed Dunn to incorporate the neglected Caribbean into a …
The New Map of Empire
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution
Landscape and Material Culture in British Plantation America
Landscape and Material Culture in British Plantation America S. Max Edelson Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies. By Jefferson Dillman. Atlantic Crossings. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. 259 pages. Cloth, ebook. Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. By Emma Hart. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 288 pages. Paper. Originally publish…
Geographies of an Imperial Power
Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815, by Jeremy Black." Imago Mundi, 71(2), p. 223
The History of Cartography. Volume 4
Searching for Cofitachequi
A leur arrivée en Caroline en 1670, les colons anglais s’appuyèrent sur la connaissance que possédaient les Espagnols de la géographie et de l’ethnographie des territoires situés au sud-est de l’Amérique du Nord afin de mieux comprendre les peuples et les lieux se trouvant à l’intérieur du continent. Cet ensemble de textes et de cartes répertoriaient les entradas de De Soto et de Prado et dessinaient un paysage composé de chefferies puissantes, r…
The Virginia Venture
Catawba Counter-Cartographies
When English colonizers arrived along the shores of the North American Southeast in 1670, they created new maps of their colony that opened the Native interior to view. The first published maps of South Carolina distorted the truth of this indigenous world. Over the next fifty years, Charlestown, South Carolina, became a destination for Native visitors, who had opportunities to view colonial maps in person. In the 1720s, the Catawbas presented So…
Archaeology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Empire (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works)