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Informationen zum Autor Robbie Ethridge, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi, is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, 1796-1816. Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, an associate professor of history at Christopher Newport University, is the author of Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians. Contributors: Robin Beck, Eric E. Bowne, Robbie Ethridge, Mary Elizabeth Fitts, William A. Fox, Patricia Galloway, Charles L. Heath, Ned J. Jenkins, Matthew H. Jennings, Marvin D. Jeter, Paul Kelton, Maureen Meyers, George Edward Milne, Randolph Noe, Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Stephen Warren, and John E. Worth. Klappentext Robbie Ethridge! an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi! is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World! 1796¿1816. Sheri M. Shuck-Hall! an associate professor of history at Christopher Newport University! is the author of Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians.¿Contributors: Robin Beck! Eric E. Bowne! Robbie Ethridge! Mary Elizabeth Fitts! William A. Fox! Patricia Galloway! Charles L. Heath! Ned J. Jenkins! Matthew H. Jennings! Marvin D. Jeter! Paul Kelton! Maureen Meyers! George Edward Milne! Randolph Noe! Sheri M. Shuck-Hall! Stephen Warren! and John E. Worth. Zusammenfassung Examines the shatter zone created in the colonial South through the interactions of American Indians and European colonists. This book assesses the shatter zone region as a whole and the varied ways in which Native peoples wrestled with an increasingly unstable world and worked to re-establish order. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Mapping the Mississippian Shatter ZoneRobbie Ethridge 2. Events as Seen from the North: The Iroquois and Colonial Slavery William A. Fox 3. From Refugees to Slave Traders: The Transformation of the Westo Indians Maureen Meyers 4. "Caryinge awaye their Corne and Children": The Effects of Westo Slave Raids on the Indians of the Lower South Eric E. Bowne 5. Catawba Coalescence and the Shattering of the Carolina Piedmont, 1540--1675 Robin A. Beck Jr. 6. "Indians Refusing to Carry Burdens": Understanding the Success of Catawba Political, Military, and Settlement Strategies in Colonial Carolina Mary Elizabeth Fitts and Charles L. Heath 7. "The Greatest Travelers in America": Shawnee Survival in the Shatter Zone Stephen Warren and Randolph Noe 8. Tracing the Origins of the Early Creeks, 1050--1700 CENed J. Jenkins 9. Alabama and Coushatta Diaspora and Coalescence in the Mississippian Shatter Zone Sheri M. Shuck-Hall 10. Violence in a Shattered World Mathew H. Jennings 11. Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659--1715 John E. Worth 12. Shattered and Infected: Epidemics and the Origins of the Yamasee War, 1696--1715 Paul Kelton 13. Choctaws at the Border of the "Shatter Zone": Spheres of Exchange and Spheres of Social ValuePatricia Galloway 14. Shatter Zone Shock Waves along the Lower Mississippi Marvin D. Jeter 15. Picking up the Pieces: Natchez Coalescence in the Shatter Zone George Edward Milne Afterword: Some Thoughts on Further WorkRobbie EthridgeBibliography List of Contributors Index...
