Author : Eugene Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813007771
The Enterprise of Florida
Eugene Lyon
Pedro Menéndez De Avilés And The Conquest Of Florida
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida
Gonzalo Solís de Merás
Author : Gonzalo Solís de Merás
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065922
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida by Gonzalo Solís de Merás Pdf
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America’s oldest city. Until recently, the only extant version of Solís de Merás’s record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidíaz’s text. In 2012, David Arbesú discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document. In the resulting volume, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesú sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine’s founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesú provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.
The Enterprise of Florida
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174882166
The Enterprise of Florida by Anonim Pdf
Menendez
Albert Manucy
Author : Albert Manucy
Publisher : Pineapple Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561640164
Menendez by Albert Manucy Pdf
Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar. Yet Pedro Menendez de Aviles might truly be called one of the founding fathers of America, for he was the founder of the nation's oldest city—St. Augustine. This book is the first to be written about Menendez. It is based on scholarly research, but it is not just a work for the scholar. It was written for the education and enjoyment of any reader who wants to meet this remarkable man. Manucy has dramatized historic moments so that history comes alive and we find ourselves in the midst of it.
Discovering Florida
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048833
Discovering Florida by Anonim Pdf
Florida’s lower gulf coast was a key region in the early European exploration of North America, with an extraordinary amount of first-time interactions between Spaniards and Florida’s indigenous cultures. Discovering Florida compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between 1513 and 1566. Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents—in their own words—the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. These accounts, which have never before appeared together in print, provide an astonishing glimpse into a world of indigenous cultures that did not survive colonization. With introductions to the primary sources, extensive notes, and a historical overview of Spanish exploration in the region, this book offers an unprecedented firsthand view of La Florida in the earliest stages of European conquest.
The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida
Barnard Shipp
Author : Barnard Shipp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Florida
ISBN : ONB:+Z293910308
The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida by Barnard Shipp Pdf
A historical record of expeditions to Florida by Hernando de Soto and others from the years 1512-1568.
Florida's Frontiers
Paul E. Hoffman
Author : Paul E. Hoffman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0253108780
Florida's Frontiers by Paul E. Hoffman Pdf
Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida's frontiers. Paul E. Hoffman tells the story of those frontiers and how the land and the people shaped them during the three centuries from 1565 to 1860. For settlers to La Florida, the American Southeast ca. 1500, better natural and human resources were found on the piedmont and on the western side of Florida's central ridge, while the coasts and coastal plains proved far less inviting. But natural environment was only one important factor in the settlement of Florida. The Spaniards, the British, the Seminole and Miccosuki, the Spaniards once again, and finally Americans constructed their Florida frontiers in interaction with the Native Americans who were present, the vestiges of earlier frontiers, and international events. The near-completion of the range and township surveys by 1860 and of the deportation of most of the Seminole and Miccosuki mark the end of the Florida frontier, though frontier-like conditions persisted in many parts of the state into the early 20th century. For this major work of Florida history, Hoffman has drawn from a broad range of secondary works and from his intensive research in Spanish archival sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Florida's Frontiers will be welcomed by students of history well beyond the Sunshine State.
Menendez de Aviles and La Florida
Gonzalo Solis De Meras,Mercado Juan Carlos Callahan Laura
Author : Gonzalo Solis De Meras,Mercado Juan Carlos Callahan Laura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 0773430180
Menendez de Aviles and La Florida by Gonzalo Solis De Meras,Mercado Juan Carlos Callahan Laura Pdf
This edition of the chronicles written about Men(r)ndez de Avil(r)s, his explorations, settlement and governorship of La Florida is the first annotated publication of the expeditions' chronicles available to an English audience. These documents offer both primary source data as well as contextual information concerning Spanish colonial history and culture. Many of the documents underscore differences between the conquest of La Florida and of Mexico and Peru while stressing imperial power struggles and the important role of fashioning the image of a conquistador."
A People's History of Florida, 1513-1876
Adam Wasserman
Author : Adam Wasserman
Publisher : Adam Wasserman
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442167094
A People's History of Florida, 1513-1876 by Adam Wasserman Pdf
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, predicted that the bottom class perspective of history would eventually gain ground, enveloping the old way of narrating history as told by the powerful. Since then, numerous historical events have been redefined through the outlook of common people that were involved from the bottom-up, forever altering how we understand history. No more romantic diatribes glittered in patriotic myths. No more traditional heroes, standardized viewpoints, unquestionable "facts," or generalized falsehoods. Just plain raw truth that is not afraid to stampede powerful governments with the herd of popular outrage. A People's History of Florida follows the People's History tradition, documenting the active involvement of African-Americans, indigenous people, women, and poor whites in shaping the Sunshine State's history.
Crónica de Flores Y Blancaflor
David Arbesú-Fernández
Author : David Arbesú-Fernández
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105217167951
Crónica de Flores Y Blancaflor by David Arbesú-Fernández Pdf
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Jane Landers
Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 025202446X
Black Society in Spanish Florida by Jane Landers Pdf
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilat
Spanish Colonial Silver Coins in the Florida Collection
Alan K. Craig
Author : Alan K. Craig
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0813017483
Spanish Colonial Silver Coins in the Florida Collection by Alan K. Craig Pdf
"After Spain's colonial American mints poured forth a flood of silver coins, some of that treasure ended up in wrecks off the Florida coast. Alan Craig's captivating study explains how those coins were made and what historians and numismatists can learn from them."--Kendall W. Brown, Brigham Young University "The State of Florida is indeed fortunate that its colonial coin inventory, Florida's shipwreck patrimony, could be studied by Alan Craig. This work enriches us all."--Eugene Lyon, author of The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Spanish Conquest of 1565-1568 and The Search for the Atocha The State of Florida owns a vast collection, nearly 23,000 specimens, of Spanish treasure coins salvaged from shipwrecks in Florida waters. It is the largest of its kind in existence. Alan Craig explains the circumstances behind their manufacture and describes the transporting of these unique hand-made coins, a complicated business full of intrigue and royal regulations. When freshly minted gold and silver left the Spanish colonial viceroyalties of Peru and Mexico aboard fleets of galleons headed to Spain, a number of ships sank off the coast of Florida. Counterfeiting was rife at the time, and Craig discusses a variety of mint scandals, especially those perpetrated by the notorious Francisco Gomez de la Rocha. Craig also analyzes coins from the mints of Mexico City, Potosi, Lima, and elsewhere. He follows the procedure of making coins, from mining the silver to refining it and ultimately converting it into coins of various sizes, and takes readers on a vivid "virtual" visit to a mint where they watch African slaves pour molten silver from furnaces into special molds and witness the days of constant hammering, annealing, die striking, blanching, weighing, and counting and recounting necessary to produce a sack of coins. Outstanding specimens from the Florida collection are depicted in numerous superb photographs, many enlarged to show elements of the engraving discussed in the text. In a final section Craig discusses the numismatic significance of the thousands of coins in the collection. As both an economic history and a numismatic study, this work will be a fascinating resource for historians, archaeologists, coin collectors, and general readers interested in maritime treasure. Alan K. Craig is professor emeritus of geography and geology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and coeditor of In Quest of Mineral Wealth.
Before the Pioneers
Andrew K. Frank
Author : Andrew K. Frank
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063010
Before the Pioneers by Andrew K. Frank Pdf
“In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders, slaves, raiders, and traders. This book will change the way you think about Florida history.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America “Reveals that Old Miami seems a lot like New Miami: a place bursting with energy and desperation, fresh faces, and ancient dreams.”—Gary R. Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida “A deep, intelligent look at the parade of peoples who dotted the north bank of the Miami River for thousands of years before Miami’s modern era.”—Paul S. George, author of Along the Miami River “A masterful history. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn about Miami.”—Arva Moore Parks, author of George Merrick, Son of the South Wind Formed seemingly out of steel, glass, and concrete, with millions of residents from around the globe, Miami has ancient roots that can be hard to imagine today. Before the Pioneers takes readers back through forgotten eras to the stories of the people who shaped the land along the Miami River long before most modern histories of the city begin. Andrew Frank begins the chronicle of the Magic City’s long history 4,000 years ago when Tequesta Indians settled at the mouth of the river, erecting burial mounds, ceremonial centers, and villages. Centuries later, the area became a stopover for Spanish colonists on their way to Havana. Frank brings to life the vibrant colonies of fugitives and seafarers that formed on the shores of Biscayne Bay in the eighteenth century. He tells of the emergence of the tropical fruit plantations and the accompanying enslaved communities, as well as the military occupation during the Seminole Wars. Eventually, the small seaport town flourished with the coming of “pioneers” like Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler who promoted the city as a place of luxury and brought new waves of residents from the North. Frank pieces together the material culture and the historical record of the Miami River to re-create the fascinating past of one of the world’s most influential cities. A volume in the series Florida in Focus, edited by Frederick R. Davis and Andrew K. Frank
The Dawning of the Apocalypse
Gerald Horne
Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583678725
The Dawning of the Apocalypse by Gerald Horne Pdf
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the “long sixteenth century”– from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607. During this prolonged century, Horne contends, “whiteness” morphed into “white supremacy,” and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Bartolomé Barrientos
Author : Bartolomé Barrientos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Florida
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023505033