1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 210. Some light foxing to the ffep

1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 210. Some light foxing to the ffep and rfep; tiny ding in the upper portion of the front of the dj (only flaws); overall a very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Tan cloth with black lettering on the spine. 210 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "This book is dedicated to Michael Gannon and explicitly updates his 1965 The Cross in the Sand but views the subject from a different perspective: Where Gannon focused on the mission effort from the missionaries' point of view, Jerald T. Milanich is interested in the way Florida missions affected and were affected by the southeastern Indians they attempted to convert. In eight chapters he outlines the problem of the "lost" missions and the archaeology that has rediscovered them; describes the indigenous peoples of Florida at the time of contact with Europeans; recounts the major events of Spanish exploration; describes early Jesuit missions that failed; introduces the Franciscan missions that succeeded; provides detailed descriptions of Indian life in the mission settlements; traces significant Indian resistance to colonization and missionization; and finally recounts the collapse of the mission system under the inexorable onslaught of English attacks....."