Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810

by Andrew McMichael

Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration's attitude toward resident Americans. The Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ownership, McMichael shows, used an efficient system of land distribution and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082033023X
• ISBN13: 9780820330235
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"