Alabama and the borderlands : from prehistory to statehood / edited by R. Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badger, Reid.

Clayton, Lawrence A.

University of Alabama. College of Arts and Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Alabama--History--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Alabama--History--To 1819--Congresses.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of Mobile, this is a comprehensive and readable collection of scholarship on early Alabama.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Prehistoric Background; 1 Richard A. Krause - Trends and Trajectories in American Archaeology: Some Questions about the Mississippian Period in Southeastern Prehistory; 2 James B. Griffin - Changing Concepts of the Prehistoric Mississippian Cultures of the Eastern United States; 3 Bruce D. Smith - Mississippian Patterns of Subsistence and Settlement; Part II The Age of Exploration; 4 John H. Parry - Early European Penetration of Eastern North America; 5 Jeffrey P. Brain - The Archaeology of the Hernando de SotoExpedition

6 Chester B. DePratter, Charles M. Hudson, and Marvin T. Smith - The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Chiaha to Mabila7 Charles H. Fairbanks - From Exploration to Settlement: Spanish Strategies for Colonization; Part III Colonization and Conflict; 8 Wilcomb E. Washburn - The Southeast in the Age of Conflict and Revolution; 9 Eugene Lyon - Continuity in the Age of Conquest: The Establishment of Spanish Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century; 10 William S. Coker and Hazel P. Coker - The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps

11 - Michael C. Scardaville - Approaches to the Study of Southeastern BorderlandsNotes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Essays evolved from a symposium held at the University of Alabama, Sept. 1981, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8307-7

OCLC:

609844487