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The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida: Volume II: Resistance and Destruction
Overview
"Will appeal to a very wide audience that includes scholars in a number of fields, amateur historians and archaeologists, and people interested in Native American studies . . . and will serve as a paradigm for understanding the same developments elsewhere in Spanish Florida and the wider Spanish colonial world."--John H. Hann, site historian, San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site
"For those working on the 17th-century frontiers of the Spanish Empire as archaeologists and historians, Worth's study is an absolute necessity. Using previously unknown primary material found during his research in Spain, he has rewritten the history of the Timucuan province of the Spanish colony of La Florida, and reassessed the history of colonial Florida itself. The new information he presents on the relationship between the Franciscan missionaries and local peoples will by itself require extensive rethinking of the frontier mission method. Worth does for Florida what H. H. Bancroft and France Scholes have done for California and the Southwest -- landmark scholarship."--James Ivey, Research Historian for the Southwest Cluster of the National Park Service
This substantial two-volume work, incorporating the most current archaeological and historical investigation, studies the assimilation and eventual destruction of the indigenous Timucuan societies of interior Spanish Florida near St. Augustine, shedding new light on the nature and function of La Florida's entire mission system.
Beginning in volume I with analysis of the late prehistoric chiefdoms, John Worth traces the effects of European exploration and colonization in the late 1500s and describes the expansion of the mission frontier before 1630. As a framework for understanding the Timucuan rebellion of 1654 and its pacification, he explores the internal political and economic structure of the colonial system. In volume II, he shows that after the geographic and political restructuring of the Timucua mission province, the interior of Florida became a populated chain of way-stations along the royal road between St. Augustine and the Apalachee province. Finally, he describes rampant demographic collapse in the missions, followed by English sponsored raids, setting a stage for their final years in Florida during the mid-1700s.
The culmination of nearly a decade of original research, these books incorporate many previously unknown or little-used Spanish documentary sources. As an analysis of both the Timucuan chiefdoms and their integration into the colonial system, they offer important discussion of the colonial experience for indigenous groups across the nation and the rest of the Americas.
John E. Worth is anthropologist at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, specializing in the ethnohistory and archaeology of the southeastern Indians during the Spanish colonial era. He is the author of The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama (1995) and many articles and book chapters. |
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