1st Edition

Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650–1725

By Timothy Paul Grady Copyright 2010
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry.

    Introduction: The Anglo-Spanish Rivalry and the Emergence of the Colonial South-East; Chapter 1 From Europe to Charleston: Anglo-Spanish Rivalries and the Beginning of the Colonial South-East; Chapter 2 A Three-Sided Struggle: The Florida–Carolina Struggle and Indian Interactions Through the 1680s; Chapter 3 An Uneasy Peace: Negotiations and Confrontations Across the Carolina–Florida Frontier Through 1700; Chapter 4 Carolina’s Ascendancy: The English Invasion and Destruction of Spanish Florida’d Missions, 1700–3; Chapter 5 Fading Power and One Last Gasp: The Waning of Spanish Influence and the Beginnings of English Ascendancy; Chapter 6 Epilogue: Oglethorpe’s Odyssey;

    Biography

    Timothy Paul Grady