328 pages
6 maps, 2 figures, 17 tables, index
January 2008
978-0-8032-1393-7
$24.95 Add to CartRichmond 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
<CT>Contents</CT>
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