Format:
Online-Ressource (264 p.)
ISBN:
9780817312770
Content:
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of Mobile, this is a comprehensive and readable collection of scholarship on early Alabama
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Prehistoric Background; 1 Richard A. Krause - Trends and Trajectories in American Archaeology: Some Questions about the Mississippian Period in Southeastern Prehistory; 2 James B. Griffin - Changing Concepts of the Prehistoric Mississippian Cultures of the Eastern United States; 3 Bruce D. Smith - Mississippian Patterns of Subsistence and Settlement; Part II The Age of Exploration; 4 John H. Parry - Early European Penetration of Eastern North America; 5 Jeffrey P. Brain - The Archaeology of the Hernando de SotoExpedition
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6 Chester B. DePratter, Charles M. Hudson, and Marvin T. Smith - The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Chiaha to Mabila7 Charles H. Fairbanks - From Exploration to Settlement: Spanish Strategies for Colonization; Part III Colonization and Conflict; 8 Wilcomb E. Washburn - The Southeast in the Age of Conflict and Revolution; 9 Eugene Lyon - Continuity in the Age of Conquest: The Establishment of Spanish Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century; 10 William S. Coker and Hazel P. Coker - The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps
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11 - Michael C. Scardaville - Approaches to the Study of Southeastern BorderlandsNotes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817383077
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817302085
Additional Edition:
Print version Alabama and the Borderlands : From Prehistory To Statehood
Language:
English
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