{"product_id":"colonial-mississippi-a-borrowed-land-hardcover","title":"Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Pinnen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharles Weeks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eColonial Mississippi: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Borrowed Land\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Pinnen\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and codirector of African American Studies at Mississippi College and is a 2022-2024 Bright Institute Fellow at Knox College. His research and teaching focus on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. \u003cb\u003eCharles Weeks \u003c\/b\u003e(1937-2022) earned degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University. He helped develop and teach a program of humanities at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Jackson, Mississippi. He is author of \u003ci\u003ePaths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Juárez Myth in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53058816278861,"sku":"9781496832702","price":122.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/WGlaRTRyUFhLNnU2bDJEeDk0NnVZZz09.webp?v=1766526926","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/colonial-mississippi-a-borrowed-land-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}