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Missall, Mary Lou; Missall, John

The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict

Hardcover, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. Later printing. New/ new.

1st ed./2nd printing. F/f. Quarterbound in red with black titles along spine. New & unread. The authors describe the wars as both a military and a moral embarrassment--a sad chapter in American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and by Indian wars fought west of the Mississippi. The conflicts were the nation's first guerrilla wars. They offered the country its first opportunity for aggressive territorial expansion and highlighted the dangers of an inflexible government policy. Analyzing events of the wars against larger issues, the authors observe: "It often seems as if the Seminole Nation was the nail being pounded by the hammer of American policy. What interested us most was why the hammer was swung in the first place."Based on original research that makes use of diaries, military reports, and archival newspapers, this work will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of Florida and Native American life and to those who study the antebellum South and the early American Republic. [ 280 pages; 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches ]


ISBN: 9780813027159           Item #sdb10868            Price: $29.95