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Paths to a middle ground : the diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795 / Charles A. Weeks

Weeks, Charles A., 1937-

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2005

Online Ressource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-278) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Weeks, Charles : Paths to a Middle Ground : The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2005 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-8173-8522-4 ( : electronic bk.); 0-8173-8522-3 (electronic bk.)

0-8173-1210-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-8173-1210-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 657148966     

OCoLC: 657148966 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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LOC-SH: Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 ; Spaniards -- History -- 18th century -- Mississippi -- Natchez ; Spaniards -- History -- 18th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans ; Colonial administrators -- History -- 18th century -- Mississippi -- Natchez ; Colonial administrators -- History -- 18th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans ; Political culture -- Sources -- History -- 18th century -- Mississippi -- Natchez Region ; Political culture -- Sources -- History -- 18th century -- Alabama -- Mobile Region ; Natchez Region (Miss.) -- Ethnic relations ; Mobile Region (Ala.) -- Ethnic relations ; Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) -- Ethnic relations -- Natchez <Miss., Region> -- New Orleans <La.> -- Spanier -- Indianer ; Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century ; Colonial administrators -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century ; Colonial administrators -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century ; Political culture -- Mississippi -- Natchez Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources ; Political culture -- Alabama -- Mobile Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources ; Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) -- Ethnic relations ; Natchez Region (Miss.) -- Ethnic relations ; Mobile Region (Ala.) -- Ethnic relations ; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 ; Spaniards -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century ; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 ; Spaniards -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century ; Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century ; Colonial administrators -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century ; Colonial administrators -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century ; Political culture -- Mississippi -- Natchez Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources ; Political culture -- Alabama -- Mobile Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources ; Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) -- Ethnic relations ; Mobile Region (Ala.) -- Ethnic relations ; Natchez Region (Miss.) -- Ethnic relations ; Electronic book

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Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers in the early 1790s. Another purpose of this diplomacy, urged by Indian leaders and embraced by Spanish officials, was the formation of a regional Indian confederation that would deter American expansion into Indian lands. Weeks shows how diplomatic relations were established and maintained in the Gulf South between Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee chiefs and their Spanish counterparts aided by traders who had become integr

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Contents; Part II; Maps and Diagrams; Preface; Introduction: An Argument; Part I; 1. Initial and Sustained Contacts in the Gulf South: From Violence to Diplomacy; 2. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Native Participants; 3. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Emergence of a Culture of Diplomacy; 4. The Nogales Dispute, 17911792: Some Immediate Antecedents; 5. Diplomacy of the Nogales Dispute, 17911792; 6. Paths to Boukfouka and the Tombigbee, 17921793; 7. Tangled and Twisted Paths to Nogales; 8. The Nogales Assembly, 1793; 9. PathsRiver and Otherfrom Nogales to San Fernando de las Barrancas.