The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast

Book Overview

From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume--anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics--investigate broad cultural and literary aspects of the resulting social and demographic collapse or radical transformation of many Native societies and the gradual opening of the Southeast to European colonization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271220
• ISBN13: 9780803271227
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"