{"product_id":"la-florida-missions-spaces-of-globalization-resistance-and-transformation-hardcover","title":"La Florida Missions: Spaces of Globalization, Resistance, and Transformation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eViviana Díaz Balsera\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReinterpreting Florida's mission sites as places where Indigenous peoples and missionaries negotiated power, culture, and survival\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book approaches Florida's early Spanish missions as dynamic, multiethnic spaces where Indigenous actors resisted as well as negotiated the transformation of their world into challenging spaces of globalization. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, \u003ci\u003eLa Florida Missions\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars from anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, ethnohistory, linguistics, literature, and religious studies. The contributors to the volume move beyond earlier paradigms that envision the missions only as sites of cultural loss, oppression, and destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Florida Missions\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the 1565 attempts of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to negotiate with the Calusa, followed by essays on missions to the Mocama, Guale, Timucua, and Apalachee peoples into the eighteenth century, highlighting Franciscan and Indigenous perspectives. The book closes with the experiences of present-day Apalachee descendants in Louisiana, who continue to fight for recognition of their tribal identity. \u003ci\u003eLa Florida Missions\u003c\/i\u003e helps show how Native peoples resisted and outlasted the European invasion of southeastern North America by continually adjusting to the unpredictable forces around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViviana Díaz Balsera\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Miami, is the author of \u003ci\u003eGuardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLa Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Traci Ardren Keith Ashley Thomas Hallock Raquel Chang-Rodríguez Timothy J. Johnson George Aaron Broadwell Alejandra Dubcovsky Denise I. Bossy Rochelle A. Marrinan Tanya M. Peres John E. Worth Kimberly Borchard\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 348\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49984324796571,"sku":"9781683406594","price":172.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4602\/1275\/files\/RR6wWUTSvE9781683406594.webp?v=1793300500","url":"https:\/\/www.statesideqm.com\/products\/la-florida-missions-spaces-of-globalization-resistance-and-transformation-hardcover","provider":"Stateside Quartermaster, Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}