A Colonial Complex South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730 / Steven J. Oatis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oatis, Steven J., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yamasee Indians--Wars.

Yamasee Indians.

South Carolina--Historical geography.

South Carolina.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages) map.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Summary:

In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had become increasingly threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida. The war not only sent shock waves throughout South Carolina's government, economy, and society, but also had a profound impact on colonial and Indian cultures from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River. Drawing on a diverse range of colonial records, A Colonial Complex builds on recent developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast’s Indian, African, and European cultures throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the first detailed study of this crucial conflict, Steven J. Oatis shows the effects of South Carolina’s aggressive imperial expansion on the issues of frontier trade, combat, and diplomacy, viewing them not only from the perspective of English South Carolinians but also from that of the societies that dealt with the South Carolinians both directly and indirectly. Readers will find new information on the deerskin trade, the Indian slave trade, imperial rivalry, frontier military strategy, and the major transformations in the cultural landscape of the early colonial Southeast.--publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the southeastern frontier complex

Builders and borrowers : South Carolina's early frontier expansion

Contested empires : the southeastern theaters of Queen Anne's War

Beneath the buffer zone : strains on South Carolina's Indian alliance network

Conspiracy theories : inter-Indian alliances and the outbreak of the Yamasee War

Crises and change : wartime adjustments of the South Carolinians

Distances bridged and widened : wartime adjustments of the southeastern Indians

Inchoate resistance : Indians and Imperialists in the Creek-Cherokee War

Designs on a debatable land : the watershed of South Carolinian expansion

Conclusion : the significance of the Yamasee War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-389) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610374373

9781280374371

1280374373

OCLC:

9516918