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Title Coastal encounters : the transformation of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century / edited and with an introduction by Richmond F. Brown
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Richmond F. Brown -- The significance of the Gulf South in early American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- Escape of the nickaleers : European-Indian relations on the wild coast of Florida in 1696, from Jonathan Dickinson's journal / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Supplying our wants : Choctaws and Chickasaws reassess the trade relationship with Britain, 1771-72 / Greg O'Brien -- The founding of Tensaw : kinship, community, trade, and diplomacy in the Creek Nation / Karl Davis -- A nation divided? Blood Seminoles and Black Seminoles on the Florida frontier / Jane G. Landers -- My friend Nicolas Mongoula : Africans, Indians, and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century Mobile / David Wheat -- Scoundrels, whores, and gentlemen : defamation and society in French Colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Afro-Creole women, freedom, and property-holding in early New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Spanish bourbons and Louisiana tobacco : the case of Natchitoches, 1763-1803 / H. Sophie Burton -- A history of ranching in Nuevo Santander's Villas del Norte, 1730s-1848 / Armando C. Alonzo -- Maintaining loyalty in the West Florida borderlands : land as cause and effect in the West Florida revolution of 1810 / Andrew McMichael -- Afterword / Ida Altman
Summary Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an extraordinary stage for European rivalries to play out, allowed a Native-based frontier exchange system to develop alongside an emerging slave-based plantation economy, and enabled the construction of an urban network of unusual opportunity for free people of color. After being long-neglected in favor of the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, the colonial Gulf South has now become the focus of new and exciting scholarship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-302) and index
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Subject Social change -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
Intercultural communication -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
Indians of North America -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
African Americans -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
European Americans -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans
Economic history
Ethnic relations
European Americans
Indians of North America
Intercultural communication
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century
Gulf States -- History -- 18th century
Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject United States -- Gulf Coast
United States -- Gulf States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Richmond F. (Richmond Forrest), 1961-
ISBN 9780803213937
080321393X