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Author Crane, Verner W., 1889-1974.

Title The Southern Frontier 1670-1732 / Verner Crane.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 391 pages) : map
text file
Note Previously published: Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1928.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Southwest, Old -- History -- 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Southern States.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Southern States.
Southern States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
British -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
British.
Commerce.
History.
French -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
French -- Commerce.
French.
Indians of North America -- Commerce -- Southern States -- History.
Indians of North America -- Commerce.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Southern States.
Indians of North America -- Wars.
Chronological Term 1600 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Hahn, Steven.
Other Form: Print version: Crane, Verner Winslow, 1889- Southern frontier, 1670-1732. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 0817350829 (DLC) 2003016903 (OCoLC)52773591
ISBN 9780817384029 (electronic book)
0817384022 (electronic book)
0817350829 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780817350826 (paperback : alkaline paper)