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Titolo: | The archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts / / edited by Lawrence E. Babits and Stephanie Gandulla |
Pubblicazione: | Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014] |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.2/6 |
Soggetto topico: | Fortification - United States - History |
Excavations (Archaeology) - United States | |
Historic sites - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States History French and Indian War, 1754-1763 |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | BabitsLawrence Edward GandullaStephanie |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts |
ISBN: | 0-8130-4699-8 |
0-8130-4858-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453948603321 |
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