America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858

by William S. Belko

Featuring essays on topics ranging from international diplomacy to Seminole military strategy, America's Hundred Years' War urges us to reexamine the traditional line of thought that has previously defined early U.S. expansion into the Spanish Gulf borderlands. America's extended battle with the Seminoles transpired over a period of nearly a century, commencing in the decade prior to the American Revolution and ending in the decade before the U.S. Civil War.

William Belko and the contributors argue that we would do better to view these events as moments of heightened military aggression punctuating a much longer period of conflict in the Gulf Coast region. Each essayist uniquely expands the conventional views and periods of U.S. Seminole contact, and each does so in a variety of manners-chronologically, geographically, culturally, politically, conceptually.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 23, 2011