"This volume contains the proceedings of the 1998 Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium, at the University of Mississippi"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction / Charles Hudson XI -- Aboriginal population movements in the postcontact southeast / Marvin T. Smith -- The Great southeastern smallpox epidemic, 1696-1700 : the region’s first major epidemic? / Paul Kelton -- Spanish missions and the persistence of chiefly power / John E. Worth -- Trouble coming southward : emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree -- The mother of necessity : Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the making of a new order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. Hahn -- The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750 : patterns of sociopolitical coalescence and dispersal / Penelope B. Drooker -- The cultural landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at contact / R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr. -- Reconstructing the coalescence of Cherokee communities in Southern Appalachia / Christopher B. Rodning -- From prehistory through protohistory to ethnohistory in and near the northern lower Mississippi Valley / Marvin D. Jeter -- Colonial Period transformations in the Mississippi Valley : disintegration, alliance, confederation, playoff / Patricia Galloway -- Social changes among the Caddo Indians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Timothy K. Perttula -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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