Resources - Spanish Florida

Articles of Interest

About the Articles of Interest

The articles listed are a wonderful resource for research of Spanish Florida. 

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Spanish Florida

Articles

“The Exploration of Florida and Sources on the Founding of St. Augustine”

 by Luis Rafael Arana
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 44, No. 1/2, Quadricentennial Edition (Jul. – Oct. 1965), pp. 1-16
Published By: Florida Historical Society

“Florida History in Spanish Archives. Reproductions at the University of Florida.” 
by Charles W. Arnade
The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1 (1955), pp. 36–50
Published By: Florida Historical Society

“Florida in 1643: As Seen by Its Governor”
by Charles W. Arnade
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 34, No. 2 (Oct. 1955),

pp. 172-176
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“A Guide to Spanish Florida Source Material”
by Charles Arnade
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 35, No. 4 (Apr. 1957),

pp. 320-325 
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“The Failure of Spanish Florida”
by Charles W. Arnade
The Americas, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1960), pp. 271–281.
Published By: Academy of American Franciscan History

“Cattle Raising in Spanish Florida, 1513-1763”
by Charles W. Arnade
Agricultural History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1961), pp. 116–124.
Published by: Agricultural History Society

“The English Invasion of Spanish Florida, 1700-1706”
by Charles W. Arnade
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jul. 1962), pp. 29-37
Published By: Florida Historical Society

“Estructura de la población de una sociedad de frontera: la Florida española, 1600 – 1763”
by J. I. Arnaud Rabinal, A. Bernárdez Álvarez, P. M. Martín Escudero, & F. del Pozo Redondo
Revista Complutense de Historia de América, Vol. 17, 1991, pp. 93 – 120 (PDF)

“The Menéndez Marquéz Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida”
by Amy Bushnell
The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1978, pp. 407–431.
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“Migration of the Seminoles into Florida, 1700-1820”
by James W. Covington
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 46, No. 4 (Apr. 1968),

pp. 340-357
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“The Material Assemblage of 16th Century Spanish Florida”
by Kathleen Deagan
Historical Archaeology, Vol. 12, 1978, pp. 25–50.
Published by: Springer

“Documents of the Spanish Florida Borderlands: A Calendaring Project at the University of Florida”
by Michael V. Gannon
The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 1981, pp. 718–722
Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

“La Ciudad De San Agustín: A European Fighting Presidio in Eighteenth-Century ‘La Florida.’”
by Carl D. Halbirt
Historical Archaeology, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2004, pp. 33–46.
Published By: Springer

“Evidence Pertinent to the Florida Cabildo Controversy and the Misdating of the Juan Márquez Cabrera Governorship.”
by John H. Hann
The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 1, 2000, pp. 68–83.
Published By: Florida Historical Society

“Black Frontier Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida”
by Jane Landers
Organization American Historians (OAH) Magazine of History, vol. 3, no. 2, 1988, pp. 28–29.
Published by: Oxford University Press

“Founding Mothers: Female Rebels in Colonial New Granada and Spanish Florida”
by Jane Landers
The Journal of African American History
Vol. 98, No. 1, Special Issue: “Women, Slavery, and the Atlantic World” (Winter 2013), pp. 7-23
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.1.0007

“The Florida Mutineers,

1566-67 “
by Eugene Lyon
Digitally Archived Journal of the Historical Association of South Florida
Tequesta: Number 34/1984, pages 44-61
Digital Collections at FIU (PDF)

“Santa Elena: A Brief History of the Colony, 1566-1587”
by Eugene Lyon
Research Manuscript Series, 185 (1984)
Digital copy – University of South Carolina at Columbia – Scholar Commons

“A New Guide to Sources of Spanish Florida History”
by D. Lorne McWatters, Bruce S. Chappell and Michael Getzler-Eaton
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 56, No. 4 (Apr.1978),

pp. 495-497
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“Florida History (1650-1750) in the Spanish Records of North Carolina State Department of Archives and History”
by Albert C. Manucy
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 25, No. 4 (Apr. 1947),

pp. 319-332
Published by: Florida Historical Society

“La emigración canaria a la Florida Oriental española (1600-1821)”
by Juan Marchena Fernandez
IX Coloquio de Historia Canario Americana (1990)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Published by: Casa de Colon, Cabildo de Gran Canaria

“Missions in the Defense of Spanish Florida, 1566-1710”
by Robert Allen Matter
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 54, No. 1 (Jul. 1975), pp. 18-38
Published By: Florida Historical Society

“La Florida y el Suroeste Americano”
by Nicolas Toscano
El Español en el Mundo-Enciclopedia del Español en los Estados Unidos
Anuario 2008, Las Primeras Huellas Hispanas, pp. 32-55 (Downloadable PDF)

“The Evacuation of South Florida, 1704-1760”
by John Worth
Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (2003) (Downloadable PDF – Available through Academia.edu)

“Timucuan missions of Spanish Florida and the Rebellion of 1656”
by John E. Worth
Dissertation, University of Florida, 1992

(Downloadable PDF available through University of Florida’s Digital Collections)

“Prelude to Rebellion: Diego de Rebolledo vs. Lucas Menendez in Mid-17th Century Spanish Florida”
by Linda Suzanne Cecelia Borgen
Thesis presented to the University of West Florida for a Master of Arts/Department of Anthropology-2011

(Downloadable PDF available through Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative)

“A More Inclusive Approach To Assessing Cultural Heritage Values- The Government House, St. Augustine, Florida”
by Blair Bryant Mullins
Thesis presented to the University of Florida for a Master of Historic Preservation – 2012 (Downloadable PDF available through University of Florida’s Digital Collections)

“A History of Southeastern Indians In Cuba, 1513-1823.”
by John Worth
Unpublished paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (2004) (Downloadable PDF available through Academia.edu)