Selling Vero Beach - Settler Myths in the Land of the Ais and Seminole

This book
explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River
area on Florida's Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous
peoples and rewriting its history to market the land to investors and tourists.

Info autore

Kristalyn Marie Shefveland is associate professor of American history at the University of
Southern Indiana. She is the author of Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade,
Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722.

Riassunto

Explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region’s Indigenous peoples and marketing the land as an idyllic, fertile place of possibilities.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kristalyn Marie Shefveland
• Editore: University Press Of Florida
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.04.2024
• EAN: 9780813080536
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-8053-6
• Pagine: 216
• Dimensioni: 229 mm x 151 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 330 g
• Illustrazioni: 17 b&w illus.
• Serie: Florida in Focus
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro