Coastal encounters
Subtitle: the transformation of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century
By: edited and with an introduction by Richmond F. Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Richmond F. 1961-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lincoln and London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803262676
Subjects: Social change -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; Intercultural communication -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; Indians of North America -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; African Americans -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; European Americans -- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History -- 18th century; Gulf States -- History -- 18th century; Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richmond F. Brown; title: The significance of the Gulf South in early American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.; title: Escape of the nickaleers : European-Indian relations on the wild coast of Florida in 1696, from Jonathan  Dickinson's journal / Amy Turner Bushnell; title: Supplying our wants : Choctaws and Chickasaws reassess the trade relationship with Britain, 1771-72 / Greg O'Brien; title: The founding of Tensaw : kinship, community, trade, and diplomacy in the Creek Nation / Karl Davis; title: A nation divided? Blood Seminoles and Black Seminoles on the Florida frontier / Jane G. Landers; title: My friend Nicolas Mongoula : Africans, Indians, and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century Mobile / David Wheat; title: Scoundrels, whores, and gentlemen : defamation and society in French Colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy; title: Afro-Creole women, freedom, and property-holding in early New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould; title: Spanish bourbons and Louisiana tobacco : the case of Natchitoches, 1763-1803 / H. Sophie Burton; title: A history of ranching in Nuevo Santander's Villas del Norte, 1730-1848 / Armando C. Alonzo; title: Maintaining loyalty in the West Florida borderlands : land as cause and effect in the West Florida revolution of 1810 / Andrew McMichael; title: Afterword / Ida Altman.