| Description |
xvi, 457 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Official's report : the Hernandez de Biedma account / Ida Altman -- Incestuous Soto narratives / Patricia Galloway -- Gentleman of Elvas and his publisher / Martin Malcolm Elbl and Ivana Elbl -- Florida del Inca : Garcilaso's literary sources / Lee Dowling -- 'So unbelievable it has to be true': Inca Garcilaso in two worlds / David Henige -- Hernando de Soto before Florida: a narrative / Curt Lamar -- Hernando de Soto and his Florida fantasy / Ignacio Avellaneda -- Soto's problems of orientation: maps, navigation, and instruments in the Florida expedition / Robert S. Weddle -- Leagues in Mexico versus leagues in Florida : how good were estimates? / Ross Hassig -- Of roads and reifications : the interpretation of historical roads and the Soto entrada / Jack D. Elliott Jr. -- Disease and the Soto entrada / Ann F. Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway -- Conjoncture and longue duree : history, anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto expedition / Patricia Galloway -- From chiefdom to tribe in northeast Mississippi : the Soto expedition as a window on a culture in transition / Jay K. Johnson -- Historical significance of the Soto route / Charles Hudson -- Expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish struggle for justice / Ralph H. Vigil -- Law, legitimacy, and the legacy of Hernando de Soto / Lawrence J. Goodman and John R. Wunder -- Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes : chronicler of the Indies / Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce -- Representation of violence in the Soto narratives / Jose Rabasa -- Commemorative history and Hernando de Soto / Patricia Galloway. |
| Subject |
Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542.
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Southern States -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Historiography.
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| Added Author |
Galloway, Patricia Kay.
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| ISBN |
0803221576 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T331 -1997 nbdocs |
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