Here They Once Stood: The Tragic End of the Apalachee Missions Contributor(s): Boyd, Mark F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813017254 ISBN-13: 9780813017259 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: First published in 1951. Details the firey end of the Franciscans' Apalachee missions in the 1600s by Carolinian militia & Indian allies. Presents the written, first-hand accounts of the missions' horrific fate & documents the archaeological evidence. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - History | Native American |
Dewey: 975.988 |
LCCN: 99025593 |
Series: Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6" W x 8.98" (1.00 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Religious Orientation - Catholic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "The book throws much new light on the final, critical years of the 'Mission Era' of northern Florida. . . . It] fills in a most interesting and important aspect of this story; namely, the difficult life led by the Franciscans, who established their simple, crude outposts among a most inhospitable people. The whole picture of the missionary's life--his simple mission buildings and the paucity and crudeness of his material blessings--is brought out by these studies. How different a picture than the one so many of us have of the Spanish missionary following in the wake of conquering armies. . . . An important contribution to the history of the Spanish period in America "--American Antiquity "An historical-archaeological case study of two Spanish missions and of the area now comprising Leon and Jefferson counties. The authors reaffirm the fact that missions in the region were destroyed in the early 1700s and that they were not largely revived thereafter; and they properly conclude, it seems, that their documents and excavations furnish information on the missions during their heyday."--Florida Historical Quarterly
Mark F. Boyd, a well-known malariologist, was historian for the Florida Park Service and, from 1946 to 1949, president of the Florida Historical Society. Hale G. Smith, also an employee of the Florida Park Service, was chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University. John W. Griffin, the author of pathbreaking writing on the early years of historical archaeology in the Southeast, was the first professional archaeologist employed in the state of Florida, in 1946. In 1993 he received a posthumous Award of Merit from the Society for Historical Archaeology. |