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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast
Galloway
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Description for The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast
Paperback. From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast, from Florida to the Mississippi River. This book investigates the broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies. Editor(s): Galloway, Patricia Kay. Num Pages: 494 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 704.
From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume—anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics—investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization.
From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume—anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics—investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
Number of Pages
494
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803271227
SKU
V9780803271227
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Ref
99-1
About Galloway
Patricia Galloway is an assistant professor of archival enterprise and digital asset management in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Choctaw Genesis, 1500–1700, and the editor of The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Reviews for The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast
"This is a large and important collection of works that seeks to synthesize the results of original research... All will be in debt to Galloway and the writers involved for these texts. The works are all eminently readable as historical literature and wonderfully useful as a guide to the best and most recent research in the area."-Steven Scheuler, Latin American ... Read more