ISBN:
9780817385224
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0817385223
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 292 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Weeks, Charles Paths to a Middle Ground : The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795
DDC:
305.800976226
Keywords:
Indians of North America Government relations
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1789-1869
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Spaniards History
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18th century
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Mississippi
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Natchez
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Spaniards History
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18th century
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
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Colonial administrators History
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18th century
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Mississippi
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Natchez
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Colonial administrators History
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18th century
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
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Political culture Sources
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History
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18th century
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Mississippi
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Natchez Region
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Political culture Sources
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History
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18th century
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Alabama
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Mobile Region
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Spaniards History 18th century
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Colonial administrators History 18th century
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Colonial administrators History 18th century
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Political culture Sources History 18th century
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Political culture Sources History 18th century
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Indians of North America Government relations 1789-1869
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Spaniards History 18th century
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Indians of North America Government relations 1789-1869
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Spaniards History 18th century
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Spaniards History 18th century
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Colonial administrators History 18th century
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Colonial administrators History 18th century
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Political culture Sources History 18th century
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Political culture Sources History 18th century
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Political culture
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Spaniards
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Diplomatie
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Colonial administrators
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Ethnic relations
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Indians of North America ; Government relations
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History
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Sources
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Natchez Region (Miss.) Ethnic relations
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Mobile Region (Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Natchez 〈Miss., Region〉
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New Orleans 〈La.〉
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Spanier
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Indianer
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Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Natchez Region (Miss.) Ethnic relations
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Mobile Region (Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Mobile Region (Ala.) Ethnic relations
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Natchez Region (Miss.) Ethnic relations
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Alabama ; Mobile Region
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Louisiana ; New Orleans
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Mississippi ; Natchez
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Mississippi ; Natchez Region
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Natchez, Miss ; Region
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New Orleans, La
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Spanier
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Indianer
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Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Part III: Documents1. Diary of Gayoso's Journey to Nogales, March 24April 23, 1791; 2. Franchimastab and Taboca to Gayoso, May 14, 1791; 3. Gayoso's Reply to Franchimastab and Taboca, May 28, 1791; 4. Diary of Minor's First Mission to the Choctaws May 30 to June 13, 1791; 5. Gayoso on Minor's Mission to the Choctaws, July 1, 1791; 6. Gayoso to Franchimastab, March 12, 1792; 7. Diary of Stephen Minor's Second Mission to the Ch.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-278) and index. - Description based on print version record
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