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The Hernando de Soto expedition: history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast

Patricia Kay Galloway c2005 © University of Nebraska Press
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  • 9780803221574 (hardcover)
  • 9780803271227 (paper)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xix)
  • List of Tables (page xx)
  • Editor's Preface (page xxi)
  • Introduction (page xxiii)
  • Part 1. The Sources
    • An Official's Report: The Hernández de Biedma Account (Ida Altman, page 3)
    • The Incestuous Soto Narratives (Patricia Galloway, page II)
    • The Gentleman of Elvas and His Publisher (Martin Malcolm Elbl and Ivana Elbl, page 45)
    • La Florida del Inca: Garcilaso's Literary Sources (Lee Dowling, page 98)
    • "So Unbelievable It Has to Be True": Inca Garcilaso in Two Worlds (David Henige, page 155)
  • Part 2. The Expedition
    • Hernando de Soto before Florida: A Narrative (Curt Lamar, page 181)
    • Hernando de Soto and His Florida Fantasy (Ignacio Avellaneda, page 207)
    • Soto's Problems of Orientation: Maps, Navigation, and Instruments in the Florida Expedition (Robert S. Weddle, page 219)
    • Leagues in Mexico versus Leagues in Florida: How Good Were Estimates? (Ross Hassig, page 234)
    • Of Roads and Reifications: The Interpretation of Historical Roads and the Soto Entrada (Jack D. Elliott Jr., page 246)
    • Disease and the Soto Entrada (Ann F. Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, page 259)
  • Part 3. The Expedition and Indian History
    • Conjoncture and Longue Durée: History, Anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto Expedition (Patricia Galloway, page 283)
    • From Chiefdom to Tribe in Northeast Mississippi: The Soto Expedition as a window on a Culture in Transition (Jay K. Johnson, page 295)
    • The Historical Significance of the Soto Route (Charles Hudson, page 313)
  • Part 4. The Expedition and Euro-American History
    • The Expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Struggle for Justice (Ralph H. Vigil, page 329)
    • Law, Legitimacy, and the Legacy of Hernando de Soto (Lawrence J. Goodman and John R. Wunder, page 355)
    • Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Chronicler of the Indies (Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce, page 369)
    • The Representation of Violence in the Soto Narratives (José Rabasa, page 380)
    • Commemorative History and Hernando de Soto (Patricia Galloway, page 410)
  • Bibliography (page 437)
  • The Contributors (page 473)
  • Index (page 477)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 86.4 (Mar. 2000): 1748-1749 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28200003%2986%3A4%3C1748%3ATHDSEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
JIH 30.3 (Winter 1999): 521-523 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199924%2930%3A3%3C521%3ATHDSEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
JSH 65.1 (Feb. 1999): 141-142 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28199902%2965%3A1%3C141%3ATHDSEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
AANTH 100.3 (Sep. 1998): 791-792 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199809%292%3A100%3A3%3C791%3ATHDSEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
AA 63.3 (Jul. 1998): 522 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7316%28199807%2963%3A3%3C522%3ATHDSEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
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