Coastal encounters : the transformation of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century / edited and with an introduction by Richmond F. Brown.

Other author Brown, Richmond F. (Richmond Forrest), 1961-
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Social change--Gulf Coast (U.S.). --History. --18th century.
Intercultural communication--Gulf Coast (U.S.). --History. --18th century.
Indians of North America--Gulf Coast (U.S.). --History. --18th century.
African Americans--Gulf Coast (U.S.). --History. --18th century.
European Americans--Gulf Coast (U.S.). --History. --18th century.
Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History. --18th century.
Gulf States--History. --18th century.
Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Economic conditions. --18th century.
Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Social conditions. --18th century.
Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Ethnic relations. --History. --18th century.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-302) and index.
LCCN 2007020211
ISBN9780803262676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0803262671 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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