Title A colonial complex : South Carolina's frontiers in the era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730 / Steven J. Oatis

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (399 pages) : map Contents Introduction : the southeastern frontier complex -- Builders and borrowers : South Carolina's early frontier expansion -- Contested empires : the southeastern theaters of Queen Anne's War -- Beneath the buffer zone : strains on South Carolina's Indian alliance network -- Conspiracy theories : inter-Indian alliances and the outbreak of the Yamasee War -- Crises and change : wartime adjustments of the South Carolinians -- Distances bridged and widened : wartime adjustments of the southeastern Indians -- Inchoate resistance : Indians and Imperialists in the Creek-Cherokee War -- Designs on a debatable land : the watershed of South Carolinian expansion -- Conclusion : the significance of the Yamasee War Summary In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had become increasingly threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida. The war not only sent shock waves throughout South Carolina's government, economy, and society, but also had a profound impact on colonial and Indian cultures from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River. Drawing on a diverse range of colonial records, A Colonial Complex builds on recent developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast's Indian, African, and European cultures throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the first detailed study of this crucial conflict, Steven J. Oatis shows the effects of South Carolina's aggressive imperial expansion on the issues of frontier trade, combat, and diplomacy, viewing them not only from the perspective of English South Carolinians but also from that of the societies that dealt with the South Carolinians both directly and indirectly Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-389) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Yamasee Indians -- Wars HISTORY -- State & Local. Historical geography Frontier. Indianen. Koloniale oorlogen. Expansie (macht) SUBJECT South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125555 South Carolina -- Historical geography Subject South Carolina South Carolina Frontier Yamassee. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0803204809 9780803204805 1280374373 9781280374371 0803235755 9780803235755

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