Informed Power

Communication in the Early American South

Alejandra Dubcovsky

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ISBN 9780674660182

Publication Date: 04/04/2016

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304 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 halftones, 4 maps

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List of Illustrations*
Map: The Early South
Introduction
I. What: Making Sense of La Florida, 1560s–1670s
- 1. Paths and Power
- 2. Information Contests
- 3. Rebellious News
II. Who: The Many Faces of Information, 1660s–1710s
- 4. Informers and Slaves
- 5. The Information Race
III. How: New Ways of Articulating Power, 1710–1740
- 6. Networks in Wartime
- 7. Dissonant Connections
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

* Illustrations
- Figures
  - 1.1 Pre-Columbian rock map
  - 1.2 Detail from a Creek dictionary
  - 1.3 A Catawba map
  - 1.4 Timucua council meeting
  - 2.1 Outina attacks Potano
  - 3.1 Spanish information networks, 1656
  - 3.2 Timucua information networks, 1656
  - 4.1 Indian slave raids
  - 6.1 Sanute warns of coming war
  - 6.2 Yamasee and Apalachicola relocation
  - 7.1 Oglethorpe’s attack on San Agustín
- Maps
  - The early South
  - 1.1 Major paths and towns, circa 1720
  - 3.1 Timucua missions, 1650s
  - 5.1 Apalachicola towns, 1680s

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