{"product_id":"missions-to-the-calusa-9780813080758","title":"Missions to the Calusa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA compilation of historical documents written by Europeans during the colonization of southwest Florida\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Europeans arrived in southwest Florida in the \u003cbr\u003eearly sixteenth century, they encountered a complex and powerful \u003cbr\u003esociety. The Calusa have posed an enigma to many anthropologists and \u003cbr\u003ehistorians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis work provides missing information on the \u003cbr\u003eethnography of the Calusa, a society that inhabited the area of Florida \u003cbr\u003enow known as Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties. This compilation of \u003cbr\u003ehistorical documents includes many reports never before translated into \u003cbr\u003eEnglish, including letters from Pedro Menéndez, reports from King \u003cbr\u003eCharles II and governors, bishops and soldiers, and eyewitness testimony\u003cbr\u003e from priests and laypersons about mission efforts from the sixteenth \u003cbr\u003ethrough the eighteenth centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Hann introduces Spanish \u003cbr\u003econtact with the Calusa from the early seventeenth century, focusing \u003cbr\u003eparticularly on the ill-fated Franciscan attempt in 1697 to convert the \u003cbr\u003eCalusa to Christianity. His voluminous documentation for this effort is \u003cbr\u003eparticularly valuable for its description of the role played by the \u003cbr\u003eCrown in instigating the mission despite little enthusiasm from \u003cbr\u003ereligious authorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813080758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 479","brand":"John H. Hann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608353304757,"sku":"9780813080758","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_40b7f829-3914-4a5d-87cf-fc70ef365753.jpg?v=1725374364","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/missions-to-the-calusa-9780813080758","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}