Call for Papers for AESS 2023: Reclaiming the Commons – a joint event with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

This panel will explore how European colonization in the Americas as a whole transmitted Old World forms of commoning on diverse environments (land, water, woodlands, marshlands) to this continent during early modernity and how these commons as places and commoning as practices persisted or became extinct. The period under consideration will be the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. The panel will …