The archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts / edited by Lawrence E. Babits and Stephanie Gandulla.
| Other author | Babits, Lawrence Edward. |
| Other author | Gandulla, Stephanie. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, |
| Description | xx, 303 p., : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Lawrence E. Babits -- Clash of empires / R. Scott Stephenson -- Forts on the frontier: adapting European military engineering to North America / James L. Hart -- Fort Prince George, South Carolina / Marshall W. Williams -- Fort Loudoun, Tennessee : defensive features and artifactual remains / Carl Kuttruff -- Fort dobbs, North Carolina: how documents and artifacts led to rebuilding the fort / Lawrence E. Babits -- Fort Loudoun, Virginia: a French and Indian War period fortification constructed by George Washington / Robert L. Jolley -- The Second Fort Vause: a crucial French and Indian War fort in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia / Kim A. McBride -- "To preserve the forts, and the families gathered into them": archaeology of Edwards's Fort, Capon Bridge, West Virginia / W. Stephen McBride -- Fort Loudoun: a provincial fort on the mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier / Stephen G. Warfel -- Style wars in the wilderness: the colonial forts at Crown Point / Charles L. Fisher and Paul R. Huey -- Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario, Canada / Susan M. Bazely -- Michilimackinac, a civilian fort / Lynn L. M. Evans -- War and the colonial frontier: Fort de Chartres in the Illinois country / David J. Keene -- Conclusion / Lawrence E. Babits. |
| Abstract | Explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013024206 |
| ISBN | 9780813049069 (alk. paper) |
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