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The Southern Frontier 1670-1732
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This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for cont...
This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for control. Rivalry began soon after initial discovery, mapping, and exploration as the world powers, particularly England and France, competed for control of the lucrative fur trade in the Mississippi valley. The French attempted to establish trade networks stretching from the Atlantic Ocean inland to the Mississippi River and northward from ports on the Gulf of Mexico to the Ohio River. But they found the.
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- Creator
- Verner Crane
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 391 pages) : map
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- ISBNs
- 9780817384029, 0817384022, 0817350829, 9780817350826, 0817350829
- OCLC
- ocn650060110
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index.
- English.
- Preface; CONTENTS; Introduction to 2004 Edition; I. First Contacts With the Spanish and the Indians; II. Carolinian Expansion in the Seventeenth Century; III. The Mississippi Question, 1697-1702; IV. The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War; V. The Charles Town Indian Trade; VI. Trade Regulation and Intercolonial Problems, 1670-1715; VII. The Yamasee War, 1715-1716; VIII. Defense and Reconstruction, 1715-1732; IX. Beginnings of British Western Policy, 1715-1721; X. The Carolina-Florida Border, 1721-1730; XI. International Rivalries in the Old Southwest, 1715-1730
- XII. The Board of Trade and Southern Colonization, 1721-1730XIII. The Philanthropists and the Genesis of Georgia; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Subjects
- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Southwest, Old -- History -- 17th century.
- Southwest, Old -- History -- 18th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Southern States.
- Southern States -- Ethnic relations.
- British -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
- French -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
- Indians of North America -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1600-1750.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Southern States.