Pedro Menéndez De Avilés And The Conquest Of Florida

Author : Gonzalo Solís de Merás
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065922

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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.

Author : Eugene Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163250085

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The Enterprise of Florida by Eugene Lyon Pdf

Author : Eugene Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813007771

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The Enterprise of Florida by Eugene Lyon Pdf

Author : Albert Manucy
Publisher : Pineapple Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561640164

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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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048833

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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.

Author : Gonzalo Solis De Meras,Mercado Juan Carlos Callahan Laura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 0773430180

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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."

Author : Barnard Shipp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Florida
ISBN : ONB:+Z293910308

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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.

Author : Adam Wasserman
Publisher : Adam Wasserman
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442167094

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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.

Author : Paul E. Hoffman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0253108780

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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.

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583678725

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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.

Author : Bartolomé Barrientos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Florida
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023505033

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés by Bartolomé Barrientos Pdf

Author : David Arbesú-Fernández
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105217167951

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Crónica de Flores Y Blancaflor by David Arbesú-Fernández Pdf

Author : Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838756514

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Beyond Books and Borders by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez Pdf

La Florida del Inca (Lisbon, 1605) is a key text in the history and culture of the Americas. In this chronicle, its author, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born in Cuzco, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador, offers a unique representation of Hernando de Soto's expedition (1539-43) to the vast territory then known as La Florida. The studies collected here analyze the period of early contact in La Florida, study the chronicle of the Cuzcan writer and the works that influenced it, with the objective of affirming its central place in colonial, cultural, and transatlantic studies and its importance in understanding the intertwined history of the Americas. An introduction, a chronology, a general bibliography, and fifty-six images offer a frame for these sections. The various essays are written in a direct manner, and are free of jargon with the aim of attracting both general and academic readers. Raquel Chang-Rodriguez is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Literature and Culture at the City University of New York.

Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 025202446X

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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

Author : Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216134985

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Race and Ethnicity in America [4 volumes] by Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson Pdf

Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present. The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks, and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.