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Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory To Statehood

edited by R. Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton
contributions by William S. Coker, Michale C. Scardaville, Wilcomb Washburn, James B. Griffin, Marvin T. Smith, Bruce D. Smith, Richard A. Krause, Eugene Lyon, Charles Hudson, Jeffrey P. Brain, Chester B. DePratter and Hazel P. Coker

University of Alabama Press, 1985
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0208-5 | Paper: 978-0-8173-1277-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8307-7
Library of Congress Classification F326.5.A39 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.1

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern US

Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern US. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of Mobile, this is a comprehensive and readable collection of scholarship on early Alabama.

CONTRIBUTORS
Jeffrey P. Brain / William S. Coker / Chester B. DePratter / James B. Griffin / Charles Hudson / Richard A. Krause / Eugene Lyon / Michale C. Scardaville / Bruce D. Smith / Marvin T. Smith / Wilcomb Washburn

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

R. Reid Badger is emeritus director and professor of American Studies at The University of Alabama.

Lawrence A. Clayton is professor emeritus of history at The University of Alabama.

REVIEWS

"A useful and attractive book...contains some of the very best thinking on a variety of subjects improtant to southeastern archaeologists." --Southeastern Archaeology

"Interesting for the general reader as well as valuable to researchers...provides both synthetic articles and provocative new material and should be read by those itnerested in prehistory and the early istory of the southeast." --American Indian Quarterly

"Consisting of 11 essays, this work is a study of the often-neglected U.S. southeast....Thoroughly documented and carefully arranged with a perceptive introduction, meaningful illustrations, and extensive bibliography." --Choice

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I The Prehistoric Background

1 Richard A. Krause - Trends and Trajectories in American Archaeology: Some Questions about the Mississippian Period in Southeastern Prehistory

2 James B. Griffin - Changing Concepts of the Prehistoric Mississippian Cultures of the Eastern United States

3 Bruce D. Smith - Mississippian Patterns of Subsistence and Settlement

Part II The Age of Exploration

4 John H. Parry - Early European Penetration of Eastern North America

5 Jeffrey P. Brain - The Archaeology of the Hernando de SotoExpedition

6 Chester B. DePratter, Charles M. Hudson, and Marvin T. Smith - The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Chiaha to Mabila

7 Charles H. Fairbanks - From Exploration to Settlement: Spanish Strategies for Colonization

Part III Colonization and Conflict

8 Wilcomb E. Washburn - The Southeast in the Age of Conflict and Revolution

9 Eugene Lyon - Continuity in the Age of Conquest: The Establishment of Spanish Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century

10 William S. Coker and Hazel P. Coker - The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps

11 - Michael C. Scardaville - Approaches to the Study of Southeastern Borderlands

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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