Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

25. The Spanish Backcountry: War and Settler Identity in the Floridas, 1783–1814
Marriott, Hoover Room

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: Robert Olwell, University of Texas at Austin
Papers:

Spanish East Florida: A Colony Peopled by Officials and “Men Without God or King”
Susan Richbourg Parker, Florida Division of Historic Resources

Anglos and Americans in Spanish East Florida: An Examination of Loyalties during the War of 1812
James G. Cusick, University of Florida

“ Lawyers as serious nuisances”: Maintaining Order and Identity on the Surrounded Borderlands
F. Andrew McMichael, Western Kentucky University

Comment: Paul E. Hoffman, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge