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.