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See also Usner (1992) and Hall (1992), below. The balance of the French period and the first decade of the Spanish period, except for the final years and transition to Spanish rule, are hardly covered either by monographs or articles (except for Clark, 1970). The rebellion of 1768 has claimed the most scholarly attention but little new has been added to the narrative. We still do not have an in-depth study of discussions about La Louisiane in Madrid during the five years before the Rebellion. Spain's war to gain control of all of La Louisiane (1779±83) was reexamined during the bicentennial of those events in a number of short volumes and lesser studies.
American Historical Review, 104, 814±41. Â lvar NuÂn Adorno, Rolena and Pautz, Patrick Charles 1999: A Ä ez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of PaÂnfilo de NarvaÂez, 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Axtell, James 1997: The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Braund, Kathryn E. Holland 1993: Deerskins and Duffels: Creek Indian Trade with AngloAmerica, 1685±1815. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Robert S. Weddle (1985), the first volume in his trilogy of the history of the exploration and settlement of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, boldly challenges the 26 PAUL E. HOFFMAN standard narrative's emphasis on the Atlantic explorations and the nationalist narratives' minimizing of events not directly tied to the national territory. Weddle argues that the Gulf approach to North America was far more important than Atlantic coastoriented historians of European exploration and settlement had assumed.