| Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century Contributor(s): Brown, Richmond F. (Editor), Brown, Richmond F. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803262671 ISBN-13: 9780803262676 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 Annotation: "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. "Coastal Encounters" brings together leading experts and emerging scholars to provide a portrait of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century. The contributors depict the remarkable transformations that took place--demographic, cultural, social, political, and economic--and examine the changes from multiple perspectives, including those of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; colonizers and colonized; men and women. The outstanding essays in this book argue for the central place of this dynamic region in colonial history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 976 |
| LCCN: 2007020211 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.35" W x 9.01" (0.97 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Coastal Encounters brings together leading experts and emerging scholars to provide a portrait of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century. The contributors depict the remarkable transformations that took place-demographic, cultural, social, political, and economic-and examine the changes from multiple perspectives, including those of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; colonizers and colonized; men and women. The outstanding essays in this book argue for the central place of this dynamic region in colonial history. Richmond F. Brown is an associate professor and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He taught at the University of South Alabama for sixteen years, where he organized the Howard Mahan Symposium. He is the author of Juan Fermin de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729-1796. |