A colonial complex : South Carolina's frontiers in the era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730

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Label

A colonial complex : South Carolina's frontiers in the era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730

Title remainder

South Carolina's frontiers in the era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730

Statement of responsibility

Steven J. Oatis

Creator

• Oatis, Steven J., 1970-

Subject

• Expansie (macht)
• Frontier
• Frontier
• HISTORY -- State & Local
• Historical geography
• History
• Indianen
• 1600-1775
• South Carolina
• South Carolina
• South Carolina -- Historical geography
• South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Yamassee
• Yamassee Indians -- Wars
• Koloniale oorlogen

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had become increasingly threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida. The war not only sent shock waves throughout South Carolina's government, economy, and society, but also had a profound impact on colonial and Indian cultures from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River. Drawing on a diverse range of colonial records, A Colonial Complex builds on recent developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast's Indian, African, and European cultures throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the first detailed study of this crucial conflict, Steven J. Oatis shows the effects of South Carolina's aggressive imperial expansion on the issues of frontier trade, combat, and diplomacy, viewing them not only from the perspective of English South Carolinians but also from that of the societies that dealt with the South Carolinians both directly and indirectly

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

975.7/02

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F272

LC item number

.O18 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography