“No one who reads this book will ever look at a button; a buckle; or a bead in quite the same way again. Diana Loren adroitly demonstrates how ‘small finds’ associated with everyday dress and bodily adornment truly mattered in colonial discourses between Europeans and Native Americans over identity; social positioning; and power.â€â€”Mary C. Beaudry; Boston University “Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts.â€â€”Carolyn White; University of Nevada; Reno
#1492425 in Books University Press of Florida 1996-11-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x .50 x 6.00l; .55 #File Name: 0813015146148 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Phil Fixico"Great" !11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A Bit Dry; but InterestingBy T. Carter RossBefore the U.S.-Mexican War and long before the Civil War; the U.S. Army and Navy had its hands full with the Seminoles in Florida. Charged with the near impossible task expelling the Native Americans who had moved into the swamps of southern Florida; the military had to develop new ways of bringing warfare into the swamps.Buker tells in a relatively dry fashion the changes in naval strategy that occurred during the war and which would end up playing a role in later conflicts throughout the mid 1880s. The culmination of these changes was a coherent strategy for riverine warfare that employed a mix of sailors; soldiers and marines using shallow draft boats that could navigate their way through the swamps. All in all it's an interesting slice of military history.
