Alabama and the Borderlands [[electronic resource] ] : From Prehistory To Statehood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790356003321
• Autore: Badger Reid
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8173-8307-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithMarvin T; SmithBruce D; KrauseRichard A; LyonEugene; HudsonCharles; BrainJeffrey P; DePratterChester B; CokerHazel P; CokerWilliam S; ScardavilleMichale C; WashburnWilcomb; GriffinJames B; ClaytonLawrence
• Disciplina: 976.1
• Soggetti: Alabama -- History -- To 1819 -- Congresses; American archaeology; Indians of North America -- Alabama -- History -- Congresses; Indians of North America - Congresses - History - Alabama; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; United States Local History; Alabama History To 1819 Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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; 11 - Michael C. Scardaville - Approaches to the Study of Southeastern BorderlandsNotes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.