Research Catalog

Title

Colonial Mississippi : a borrowed land / Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks.

Author

Pinnen, Christian.

Publication

• Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Weeks, Charles A., 1937-

Description

239 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale"--

Series Statement

Heritage of Mississippi series ; volume viii

Uniform Title

Heritage of Mississippi series ; v. 8.

Subject

• 1500-1899
• Mississippi > History
• Mississippi > History > 16th century
• Mississippi > History > 17th century
• Mississippi > History > 18th century
• Mississippi > History > 19th century
• Mississippi

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1: La Florida and Mississippi: early European contacts and native responses -- Chapter 2: L'Espérance de Mississippi: The French in Mississippi, 1699-1763 -- Chapter 3: Masters of the world? the British in Mississippi, 1763-1779 -- Chapter 4: Resurgence of empire? A "Spanish" Mississippi, 1779-1798 -- Chapter 5: A Gulf Coast, 1779-1821 -- Chapter 6: From borrowed land to possessed land, 1798 and Beyond -- Chapter 7: Remembering, recovering, and representing a Mississippi past, 1500-1800 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 21-1637

ISBN

• 1496832701
• 9781496832702

OCLC

1224513459

Author

Pinnen, Christian.

Title

Colonial Mississippi : a borrowed land / Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks.

Publisher

Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Heritage of Mississippi series ; volume viii

Heritage of Mississippi series ; v. 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1899

Added Author

Weeks, Charles A., 1937- author.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1637