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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kimberly C Borchard |
ISBN: | 9780866986328 0866986324 |
OCLC Number: | 1266258977 |
Accession No: | (DE-627)1768319472 (DE-599)KXP1768319472 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index. |
Description: | x, 192 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm |
Contents: | From Apalache to Appalachia: El Dorado in the early Latin/American colonial imagination -- Appalachian El Dorado: the Spanish Genesis, 1528-1561 -- Mines of copper, which I think to be golde: French Florida in the sixteenth century, 1562-1565 -- The mountain range that comes from Zacatecas... contains much silver: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Appalachian backbone of the Spanish Empire, 1565-1584 -- The end of Spanish exclusivism and the first exploration of the Apalataean Mountains from the Virginia Colony, 1611-1682 -- Appalachian mines and the closing of the Mississippian shatter zone, 1690-1715. |
Series Title: | Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, volume 574. |
Responsibility: | by Kimberly C. Borchard. |
Abstract:
From Apalache to Appalachia: El Dorado in the early Latin/American colonial imagination -- Appalachian El Dorado: the Spanish Genesis, 1528-1561 -- Mines of copper, which I think to be golde: French Florida in the sixteenth century, 1562-1565 -- The mountain range that comes from Zacatecas... contains much silver: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Appalachian backbone of the Spanish Empire, 1565-1584 -- The end of Spanish exclusivism and the first exploration of the Apalataean Mountains from the Virginia Colony, 1611-1682 -- Appalachian mines and the closing of the Mississippian shatter zone, 1690-1715.
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