The Hernando de Soto expedition : history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast / edited by Patricia Galloway. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galloway, Patricia Kay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542.

Soto, Hernando de.

Southern States--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Historiography.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 457 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

An official's report: the Hernández de Biedma account / Ida Altman

The incestuous Soto narratives / Patricia Galloway

The gentleman of Elvas and his publisher / Martin Malcolm Elbl and Ivana Elbl

La Florida del Inca: Garcilaso's literary sources / Lee Dowling

'So unbelievable it has to be true': Inca Garcilaso in two worlds / David Henige

Hernando de Soto before Florida: a narrative / Curt Lamar

Hernando de Soto and his Florida fantasy / Ignacio Avellaneda

Soto's problems of orientation: maps, navigation, and instruments in the Florida expedition / Robert S. Weddle

Leagues in Mexico versus leagues in Florida: how good were estimates? / Ross Hassig

Of roads and reifications: the interpretation of historical roads and the Soto entrada / Jack D. Elliott Jr.

Disease and the Soto entrada / Ann F. Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway

Conjoncture and longue durée: history, anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto expedition / Patricia Galloway

From chiefdom to tribe in northeast Mississippi: the Soto expedition as a window on a culture in transition / Jay K. Johnson

The historical significance of the Soto route / Charles Hudson

The expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish struggle for justice / Ralph H. Vigil

Law, legitimacy, and the legacy of Hernando de Soto / Lawrence J. Goodman and John R. Wunder

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes: chronicler of the Indies / Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce

The representation of violence in the Soto narratives / Jose Rabasa

Commemorative history and Hernando de Soto / Patricia Galloway

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes essays originally presented at the 1991 meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-30686-9