Old Mobile - Fort Louis De LA Louisiane, 1702-1711

Informationen zum Autor Prieur Jay Higginbotham (1937-2017) was an author, historian, and activist whose major accomplishments included founding the Mobile Municipal Archives and writing several important works about southern history and international relations. In addition to his award-winning Old Mobile (1977), he is known for his nonfiction work about the Soviet Union in the 1960s called Fast Train Russia (1981). He received five literary awards, including the Gilbert Chinard Prize and the Alabama Library Association Award. Klappentext "This volume should be read any serious student of the European colonization of the United States." - "Journal of American History" Zusammenfassung Offers to American historiography a microcosmic view of an early French colonial settlement in the United States! recreating the lives of the fort occupants in minute detail. Higginbotham has made extensive use of Spanish archives in the research of early American history.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jay Higginbotham
• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.1991
• EAN: 9780817305284
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0528-4
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
• Serien: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics Series; Library of Alabama Classics; Library Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges