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The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1804
by McDermott, John Francis (editor)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0252002695
- ISBN 13
- 9780252002694
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About This Item
Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1974, first edition; large 8vo (180x258mm), pp xiii, 421, including some 38pp of monochrome plates of historic and restored buildings, persons and relevant historic documents; fawn cloth, gilt on spine, orange dustwrapper faded on the spine and slightly frayed here and there but otherwise a copy in very good or better condition. A comprehensive and detailed work being a series of authoritative essays by specialists on the period when Spain dominated New Orleans and all the territory of Louisiana west of the Mississippi; includes work on land settlement policies and practices, Spanish immigration policies in the Old SouthWest, border conflicts and the activities by and with the Osage Indians, the regulation of the liquor trade, city government and economic development, as well as studies of historic personages such as Lieut Gov Fernando de Layba, the Bruin family, Governor Gálvez, Philip Nolan, Pedro Vial and Andrés Almonester.
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- Title
- The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1804
- Author
- McDermott, John Francis (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0252002695
- ISBN 13
- 9780252002694
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- This edition first published
- February 1, 1974
- Keywords
- Fernando de Layba; Bruin family; Governor Gálvez; Philip Nolan; Pedro Vial; Andrés Almonester; Osage Indians; liquor regulation; Santa Fe trail; Louisian; Text; New Orleans; cabildo; city government; economic development Economic History, Co
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- Philosophy; Politics; History and Society - Chesil 1"; Arts and Crafts - Chesil 5;
- X weight
- 1079 g
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