John R. Swanton Helen H. Tanner Helen Hornbeck Tanner
First published in 1942, John R. Swanton's Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians is a classic reference on the Caddos. Long regarded as the dean of southeastern Native American studies, Swanton worked for decades as an ethnographer, ethnohistorian, folklorist, and linguist. In this volume he presents the history and culture of the Caddos according to the principal French, Spanish, and English sources. In the seventeenth century, French and Spanish explorers encountered four regional alliances - Cahinnio, Cadohadacho, Hasinai, and Natchitoches - within the...
First published in 1942, John R. Swanton's Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians is a classic reference on the Caddos. Lon...
"A fine sociological portrait A very successful case-study of the East Florida governorship in the first six years of Spain s return to the peninsular province." -- American
"Excellent Recaptures the texture of life in the late eighteenth-century Florida with an enthusiasm and ingenuousness that should win over the most scrupulous critic. Florida history needs more indefatigable investigators like Tanner."-- Florida Historical Quarterly
As East Florida s first governor during the Second Spanish Period, Vicente Manual Zespedes y Valasco had to reshape colonial...
"A fine sociological portrait A very successful case-study of the East Florida governorship in the first six years of Spain s return to the peninsu...