| The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast Contributor(s): Galloway, Patricia Kay (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803271220 ISBN-13: 9780803271227 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 Annotation: From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume--anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics--investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | North American |
| Dewey: 970.016 |
| LCCN: 2005022125 |
| Lexile Measure: 1710 |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.92" W x 9.16" (1.55 lbs) 494 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume-anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics-investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization. Patricia Galloway is an assistant professor of archival enterprise and digital asset management in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700, and the editor of The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis, both published by the University of Nebraska Press. |