The Hernando de Soto expedition history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast edited by Patricia Galloway

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List of Illustrations. -- List of Tables. -- Editor's Preface. -- Introduction. -- Part 1. The Sources. -- An Official's Report : The Hernández de Biedma Account. -- The Incestuous Soto Narratives. -- The Gentleman of Elvas and His Publishern. -- La Florida del Inca: Garcilaso's Literary Sources. -- "So Unbelievable It Has to Be True": Inca Garcilaso in Two Worlds. -- Part 2. The Expedition. -- Hernando de Soto before Florida : A Narrative. -- Hernando de Soto and His Florida Fantasy. -- Soto's Problems of Orientation : Maps, Navigation, and Instruments in the Florida Expedition. -- Leagues in Mexico versus Leagues in Florida: How Good Were Estimates?. -- Of Roads and Reifications: The Interpretation of Historical Roads and the Soto Entrada. -- Disease and the Soto Entrada. -- Part 3. The Expedition and Indian History. -- Conjoncture and Longue Durée: History, Anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto Expedition. -- From Chiefdom to Tribe in Northeast Mississippi: The Soto Expedition as a window on a Culture in Transition. -- The Historical Significance of the Soto Route. -- Part 4. The Expedition and Euro-American History. -- The Expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Struggle for Justice. -- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: Chronicler of the Indies. -- The Representation of Violence in the Soto Narratives. -- Commemorative History and Hernando de Soto. -- Bibliography. -- The Contributors. -- Index

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