Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida Contributor(s): Landers, Jane L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813024862 ISBN-13: 9780813024868 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Business & Economics |
Dewey: 975.9 |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.12" W x 9.1" (0.86 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Life in Florida 200 years before the Epcot Center was a complex and painful story of speculation and exploitation, of high hopes and bitter realities. This very southern story has remained unknown to most Americans for too long. Now a diligent group of Florida historians is mining late 18th-century sources to uncover a forgotten world of English and Spanish, Minorcans and Greeks, Ibos and Fulani, Creeks and Seminoles. This timely volume brings together some of their best and most recent work, offering a varied, coherent, and detailed introduction to the work-in-progress that is early Florida history during the crucial period long after De Le n and De Soto and shortly before Jackson and Osceola."--Peter H. Wood, Duke University This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice, and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. Based on primary research in archives in England, Scotland, Spain, Cuba, Minorca, and Florida as well as upon archaeological investigations, the essays trace for the first time the relationship of Florida to both the Caribbean and the Atlantic economies and document Florida's national and international significance in the colonial period. Contents Introduction, by Jane G. Landers
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