Coastal Encounters

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Coastal Encounters

The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century

Edited and with an introduction by Richmond F. Brown

328 pages
6 maps, 2 figures, 17 tables, index

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January 2008

978-0-8032-6267-6

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About the Book

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 play out, allowed a Native-based frontier exchange system to develop alongside an emerging slave-based plantation economy, and enabled the construction of an urban network of unusual opportunity for free people of color. After being long-neglected in favor of the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, the colonial Gulf South has now become the focus of new and exciting scholarship.
 
Coastal Encounters brings together leading experts and emerging scholars to provide a portrait of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century. The contributors depict the remarkable transformations that took place—demographic, cultural, social, political, and economic—and examine the changes from multiple perspectives, including those of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; colonizers and colonized; men and women. The outstanding essays in this book argue for the central place of this dynamic region in colonial history.

Author Bio

Richmond F. Brown is an associate professor and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He taught at the University of South Alabama for sixteen years, where he organized the Howard Mahan Symposium. He is the author of Juan Fermin de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729–1796.

Contributors include:

Armando C. Alonzo

Ida Altman

Richmond F. Brown

H. Sophie Burton

Amy Turner Bushnell

Karl Davis

Shannon Lee Dawdy

Virginia Gould

Jane Landers

Andrew McMichael

Greg O’Brien

Daniel H. Usner Jr.

David Wheat

Praise

"A remarkable addition to regional studies on the colonial Gulf South."—H. G. Kong, CHOICE

"Largely ignored by colonial historians, the eighteenth-century Gulf South shines in this rich new collection of essays by a dozen experts and new scholars."—Tammy L. Ingram, Historian

Table of Contents

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List of Illustrations  

Preface    

1. Introduction  

Richmond F. Brown

2. The Significance of the Gulf South in Early American History  

Daniel H. Usner Jr.

3. Escape of the Nickaleers: European-Indian Relations on the Wild Coast of Florida in 1696, from Jonathan Dickinson's Journal  

Amy Turner Bushnell

4. Supplying Our Wants: Choctaws and Chickasaws Reassess the Trade Relationship with Britain, 1771-72    

Greg O'Brien

5. The Founding of Tensaw: Kinship, Community, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Creek Nation  

Karl Davis

6. A Nation Divided? Blood Seminoles and Black Seminoles on the Florida Frontier   

Jane G. Landers

7. My Friend Nicolas Mongoula: Africans, Indians, and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Mobile     

David Wheat

8. Scoundrels, Whores, and Gentlemen: Defamation and Society in French Colonial Louisiana

Shannon Lee Dawdy

9. Afro-Creole Women, Freedom, and Property-Holding in Early New Orleans     

Virginia Meacham Gould

10. Spanish Bourbons and Louisiana Tobacco: The Case of Natchitoches, 1763-1803    

H. Sophie Burton

11. A History of Ranching in Nuevo Santander's Villas del Norte, 1730s<EN>1848     

Armando C. Alonzo

12. Maintaining Loyalty in the West Florida Borderlands: Land as Cause and Effect in the West Florida Revolution of 1810   

Andrew McMichael

13. Afterword    

Ida Altman

Notes

Bibliography     

Contributors     

Index

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