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The Hernando de Soto expedition: history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast

Galloway, Patricia Kay.

Year: c2005.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Editor's Preface

Introduction

Part 1. The Sources

An Official's Report: The Hernández de Biedma Account

The Incestuous Soto Narratives

The Gentleman of Elvas and His Publisher

La Florida del Inca: Garcilaso's Literary Sources

"So Unbelievable It Has to Be True": Inca Garcilaso in Two Worlds

Part 2. The Expedition

Hernando de Soto before Florida: A Narrative

Hernando de Soto and His Florida Fantasy

Soto's Problems of Orientation: Maps, Navigation, and Instruments in the Florida Expedition

Leagues in Mexico versus Leagues in Florida: How Good Were Estimates?

Of Roads and Reifications: The Interpretation of Historical Roads and the Soto Entrada

Disease and the Soto Entrada

Part 3. The Expedition and Indian History

Conjoncture and Longue Durée: History, Anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto Expedition

From Chiefdom to Tribe in Northeast Mississippi: The Soto Expedition as a window on a Culture in Transition

The Historical Significance of the Soto Route

Part 4. The Expedition and Euro-American History

The Expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Struggle for Justice

Law, Legitimacy, and the Legacy of Hernando de Soto

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Chronicler of the Indies

The Representation of Violence in the Soto Narratives

Commemorative History and Hernando de Soto

Bibliography

The Contributors

Index

reviews

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Title:

The Hernando de Soto expedition : history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast edited by Patricia Galloway ; with a new preface by the editor.

Author:

Galloway, Patricia Kay

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2008
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The Hernando de Soto expedition : history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast edited by Patricia Galloway ; with a new preface by the editor.
Galloway, Patricia Kay
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2005.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03490

Subject Headings:

• Soto, Hernando de, -- ca. 1500-1542
• Southern States -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Historiography

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• Originally published: c1997.
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