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Record Nr.

UNISA996248271803316

Autore

Crane Verner Winslow <1889->

Titolo

The Southern frontier, 1670-1732 [[electronic resource] /] / Verner Crane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8402-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.)

Disciplina

976/.01

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Southern States

British - Commerce - Southern States - History

French - Commerce - Southern States - History

Indians of North America - Commerce - Southern States - History

Indians of North America - Wars - 1600-1750

Indians of North America - Wars - Southern States

Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Southwest, Old History 17th century

Southwest, Old History 18th century

Southern States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously published: Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1928.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; CONTENTS; Introduction to 2004 Edition; I. First Contacts With the Spanish and the Indians; II. Carolinian Expansion in the Seventeenth Century; III.The Mississippi Question, 1697-1702; IV. The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War; V. The Charles Town Indian Trade; VI. Trade Regulation and Intercolonial Problems, 1670-1715; VII. The Yamasee War, 1715-1716; VIII. Defense and Reconstruction, 1715-1732; IX. Beginnings of British Western Policy, 1715-1721; X. The Carolina-Florida Border, 1721-1730; XI. International Rivalries in the Old Southwest, 1715-1730

XII. The Board of Trade and Southern Colonization, 1721-1730XIII. The Philanthropists and the Genesis of Georgia; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A classic resource on the struggle for dominance in southern North



America during the colonial period.  This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for control. Rivalry began soon after initial discovery, mapping, and exploration as the world powers, particularly England and France, competed for control of the lucrative fur trade in the Mississippi valley. The French attempted to establish trade networks stretching from the