Title Alabama and the borderlands : from prehistory to statehood / edited by R. Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton.

Descript 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index. Contents pt. 1. The prehistoric background: Trends and trajectories in American archaeology: some questions about the Mississippian period in southeastern prehistory / Richard A. Krause -- Changing concepts of the prehistoric Mississippian cultures of the eastern United States / James B. Griffin -- Mississippian patterns of subsistence and settlement / Bruce D. Smith -- pt. 2. The age of exploration: Early European penetration of eastern North America / John H. Parry -- The archaeology of the Hernando de Soto expedition / Jeffrey P. Brain -- The Hernando de Soto expedition: from Chiaha to Mabila / Chester B. DePratter, Charles M. Hudson, and Marvin T. Smith -- From exploration to settlement: Spanish strategies for colonization / Charles H. Fairbanks -- pt. 3. Colonization and conflict: The southeast in the age of conflict and revolution / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Continuity in the age of conquest: the establishment of Spanish sovereignty in the sixteenth century / Eugene Lyon -- The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in maps / William S. Coker and Hazel P. Coker -- Approaches to the study of the southeastern borderlands / Michael C. Scardaville. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Alabama -- History -- To 1819 -- Congresses. Indians of North America -- Alabama -- History -- Congresses. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633 Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694 To 1819 Alt Author Badger, Reid. Clayton, Lawrence A. University of Alabama. College of Arts and Sciences. ISBN 9780817383077 (electronic bk.) 0817383077 (electronic bk.) 0817302085 9780817302085 9780817312770