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| Situado and sabana : Spain's support system for the presidio and mission provinces of Florida. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 74 |
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| Title: | Situado and sabana : Spain's support system for the presidio and mission provinces of Florida. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 74 |
| Authors: | Turner Bushnell, Amy. Thomas, David Hurst. |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | [New York] : American Museum of Natural History ; Athens, Ga. : Distributed by the University of Georgia Press |
| Series/Report no.: | Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 74 |
| Abstract: | This is an analysis of the mixed support system by which Spain maintained an economically unprofitable but strategic presidia! colony on the contested east coast of North America for two centuries. The system was an open-ended one which combined private enterprise, royal subventions and drafted labor, the relative share of each fluctuating as a function of the changing levels of external pressure, whether of threat or opportunity. The Peripheries Paradigm that emerges from an examination of the 17th-century Spanish Southeast is dynamic and essentially secular, little resembling the Borderlands Paradigm derived some 70 years ago from a study of the isolated mission presidios of the 18th-century Southwest. Spanish or Indian, the inhabitants of the presidio and mission provinces of Florida knowingly pursued their individual interests across an international arena. The captaincy general of Florida passed through five distinct support phases between its founding in 1565 and its cession to ... |
| Description: | 249 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-234) and index. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/269 |
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