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- catalog abstract ""One of the great secrets of American history, more than 150 Spanish mission churches once dotted the landscape between modern Miami and the Chesapeake Bay. Built between the 1560s and 1760s, the missions were concentrated in what is now northern Florida and southern Georgia, but until recently their existence - and their influence on the region's native groups - has remained virtually undetected. Their wood and thatch buildings burned or rotted away, and sweeping epidemics gradually wiped out the entire populations of the Timucua, Guale, and Apalachee Indians." "Drawing upon archaeological and historical research conducted during the last twenty years, archaeologist Jerald T. Milanich contends that the southeastern mission system, conceived as a way to save souls while converting a potentially hostile population into an essential labor force, was central to the Spanish colonial enterprise."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11086741.
- catalog coverage "Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763.".
- catalog coverage "Spain Colonies America Administration.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""One of the great secrets of American history, more than 150 Spanish mission churches once dotted the landscape between modern Miami and the Chesapeake Bay. Built between the 1560s and 1760s, the missions were concentrated in what is now northern Florida and southern Georgia, but until recently their existence - and their influence on the region's native groups - has remained virtually undetected. Their wood and thatch buildings burned or rotted away, and sweeping epidemics gradually wiped out the entire populations of the Timucua, Guale, and Apalachee Indians." "Drawing upon archaeological and historical research conducted during the last twenty years, archaeologist Jerald T. Milanich contends that the southeastern mission system, conceived as a way to save souls while converting a potentially hostile population into an essential labor force, was central to the Spanish colonial enterprise."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. In Search of a Once Forgotten Land -- 2. A Portrait of the Land and its People -- 3. A Clash of Cultures -- 4. Black-Robed Friars and Military Outposts -- 5. Franciscan Friars and Native Chiefs -- 6. Born under the Bell -- 7. Epidemics, Rebellion, and Change -- 8. A People Destroyed; a Land Forgotten.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 210 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Laboring in the fields of the Lord.".
- catalog identifier "1560989408 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Laboring in the fields of the Lord.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Laboring in the fields of the Lord.".
- catalog spatial "Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "Spain Colonies America Administration.".
- catalog subject "975.9/01 21".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church Missions Southern States History.".
- catalog subject "E78.S65 M55 1999".
- catalog subject "E78.S65 M55 1999X".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Missions Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Southern States History Sources.".
- catalog subject "Indians, Treatment of Southern States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. In Search of a Once Forgotten Land -- 2. A Portrait of the Land and its People -- 3. A Clash of Cultures -- 4. Black-Robed Friars and Military Outposts -- 5. Franciscan Friars and Native Chiefs -- 6. Born under the Bell -- 7. Epidemics, Rebellion, and Change -- 8. A People Destroyed; a Land Forgotten.".
- catalog title "Laboring in the fields of the Lord : Spanish missions and Southeastern Indians / Jerald T. Milanich.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".