Native and Spanish New Worlds
400 pages, 6 x 9
1 photo, 25 illust.
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Release Date:01 May 2014
ISBN:9780816531226
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Native and Spanish New Worlds

Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast

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The University of Arizona Press
Spanish-led entradas—expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories—took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce. Focusing on several major themes—social, economic, political, military, environmental, and demographic—the contributions gathered here explore not only the cultures and peoples involved in these unique engagements but also the wider connections and disparities between these borderlands and the colonial world in general during the first century of Native–European contact in North America. Bringing together research from both the southwestern and southeastern United States, this book offers a comparative synthesis of Native–European contacts and their consequences in both regions. The chapters also engage at different scales of analysis, from locally based research to macro-level evaluations, using documentary, paleoclimatic, and regional archaeological data.

No other volume assembles such a wide variety of archaeological, ethnohistorical, environmental, and biological information to elucidate the experience of Natives and Europeans in the early colonial world of Northern New Spain, and the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.
Clay Mathers is an archaeologist, the Executive Director of the Coronado Institute, and a research affiliate at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in New Mexico. Jeffrey M. Mitchem is an associate archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey and a research associate professor at the University of Arkansas. Charles M. Haecker is the staff archaeologist for the National Park Service Intermountain Region-Heritage Partnerships Program.
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