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Title First encounters : Spanish explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 / edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath.

Imprint Gainesville : University of Florida Press : Florida Museum of Natural History, ©1989.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  970.016 F519 1989    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Ripley P. Bullen monographs in anthropology and history ; no. 9
Columbus quincentenary series
Ripley P. Bullen monographs in anthropology and history ; no. 9.
Columbus quincentenary series.
Note "Published as an accompaniment to the Florida Museum of Natural History's traveling exhibit of the same name."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
Contents Another world / Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath -- Columbus's 1492 voyage and the search for his landfall / William F. Keegan -- The search for La Navidad, Columbus's 1492 settlement / Kathleen A. Deagan -- Niña, ship of discovery / Eugene Lyon -- Puerto Real : archaeology of an early Spanish town / Charles R. Ewen and Maurice W. Williams -- Hernando de Soto's expedition through the southern United States / Charles Hudson, Chester B. DePratter, and Marvin T. Smith -- Artifacts of explorations : archaeological evidence from Florida / Jeffrey M. Mitchem -- Anhaica : discovery of Hernando de Soto's 1539-1540 winter camp / Charles R. Ewen -- The Tristán de Luna Expedition, 1559-1561 / Charles Hudson [and others] -- Indian responses to European contact : the Coosa example / Marvin T. Smith -- Pedro Menéndez's plan for settling La Florida / Eugene Lyon -- St. Augustine and the La Florida colony : new life-styles in a new land / Edward Chaney and Kathleen A. Deagan -- Old world meets new : views across the Atlantic / Susan Milbrath.
Summary Describes the early Spanish contact with New World peoples and events that followed Columbus's landing.
Subject America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Caribbean Area -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Spaniards -- United States -- History -- 16th century.
Florida -- History -- To 1565.
Indians -- First contact with Europeans.
Discovery and exploration, Spanish. (OCoLC)fst01352794
Indians -- First contact with Europeans. (OCoLC)fst00969339
Spaniards. (OCoLC)fst01128153
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
Caribbean Area. (OCoLC)fst01244080
Florida. (OCoLC)fst01205150
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term To 1599
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Milanich, Jerald T.
Milbrath, Susan.
Florida Museum of Natural History.
ISBN 0813009464 (alk. paper)
9780813009469 (alk. paper)
0813009472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813009476 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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