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The People and Their Homes by Albert Manucy
In this companion volume to The Houses of St. Augustine, 1565
to 1821, Albert Manucy goes back in time to detail the first
years of St. Augustine’s settlement, from 1565 to 1700.
Focusing on how the first Spanish colonists lived, Manucy
describes the buildings and backyards of the early settlers and
illustrates how the architecture of the Timucua Indians of
Florida influenced Spanish colonial culture.
80 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table, glossary, notes, bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1484-0
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"In Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine, Manucy has put faces on the first Spanish settlers of St. Augustine and given them a town in which to live. It is an exceptional and very human interpretation of St. Augustine's beginnings. . . .This volume is strongly recommended for anyone interested in early European colonization in the Americas or those researching early folk architectural forms."--Florida Anthropologist "An invaluable source of information on vernacular architecture in Spain and her colonies. . . . Particularly useful are Manucy's many precise drawings ranging from entire lots to lashing and hardware details." -- Historical Archaeology "A veritable interpretive tour de force, we have here fine examples of the historical imagination at work, answering most of the questions any intelligent visitor, curious about St. Augustine's early Spanish Colonial housing, would pose to a tour guide. . . . In fact, Manucy's deductions and interpretations, when combined with the physical evidence of archaeology from the sixteenth-century sites in St. Augustine, provide all the information one would need for reliable reconstructions of the past. What a great way to explain to visitors the story of our Spanish colonial heritage! Read this book. Reconstruct those buildings!" -- The Public Historian "Greatly enriches our
knowledge of Spanish Florida. . . . Describes the
sixteenth-century Native American and European occupants of St.
Augustine, the circumstances which brought them together, and the
city, fortifications, and houses in which they dwelt. Nothing
else like this has been written. . . . Enlarges substantially
upon the cultural meaning of people, place, and
hearth."--Eugene Lyon, director, Center for Historic
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