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Coastal encounters : the transformation of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century /

Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an extraordinary stage for European rivalries to p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, Richmond F. (Richmond Forrest), 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richmond F. Brown
  • The significance of the Gulf South in early American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
  • Escape of the nickaleers : European-Indian relations on the wild coast of Florida in 1696, from Jonathan Dickinson's journal / Amy Turner Bushnell
  • Supplying our wants : Choctaws and Chickasaws reassess the trade relationship with Britain, 1771-72 / Greg O'Brien
  • The founding of Tensaw : kinship, community, trade, and diplomacy in the Creek Nation / Karl Davis
  • A nation divided? Blood Seminoles and Black Seminoles on the Florida frontier / Jane G. Landers
  • My friend Nicolas Mongoula : Africans, Indians, and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century Mobile / David Wheat
  • Scoundrels, whores, and gentlemen : defamation and society in French Colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy
  • Afro-Creole women, freedom, and property-holding in early New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould
  • Spanish bourbons and Louisiana tobacco : the case of Natchitoches, 1763-1803 / H. Sophie Burton
  • A history of ranching in Nuevo Santander's Villas del Norte, 1730s-1848 / Armando C. Alonzo
  • Maintaining loyalty in the West Florida borderlands : land as cause and effect in the West Florida revolution of 1810 / Andrew McMichael
  • Afterword / Ida Altman.