Alan Gallay
A holistic interdisciplinary study of great interest. C. S. Monaco provides a fascinating account of the limits of settler-colonialism and American military power on the lands of the Seminole while highlighting the strength of native peoples intent on preserving what is theirs.
David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler
With exhaustive research, fresh interpretations, and elegant prose, C. S. Monaco has produced the definitive history of the Second Seminole War.
Paul N. Backhouse
Finally, a history of the Seminole War worth reading.
From the Publisher
An up-to-date narrative of the Second Seminole War that transcends narrow military analysis and addresses current historiographical interests and issues. This book supplants John K. Mahon’s History of the Second Seminole War as the new standard history of this war.—John W. Hall, author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War
With exhaustive research, fresh interpretations, and elegant prose, C. S. Monaco has produced the definitive history of the Second Seminole War.—David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler, authors of Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
Finally, a history of the Seminole War worth reading.—Paul N. Backhouse, coeditor of We Come for Good: Archaeology and Tribal Historic Preservation at the Seminole Tribe of Florida
A holistic interdisciplinary study of great interest. C. S. Monaco provides a fascinating account of the limits of settler-colonialism and American military power on the lands of the Seminole while highlighting the strength of native peoples intent on preserving what is theirs.—Alan Gallay, author of The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717
John W. Hall
An up-to-date narrative of the Second Seminole War that transcends narrow military analysis and addresses current historiographical interests and issues. This book supplants John K. Mahon’s History of the Second Seminole War as the new standard history of this war.