Description: Bringing together scholars from many different disciplines, this book approaches Florida's early Spanish missions as dynamic, multiethnic spaces where Indigenous peoples and missionaries negotiated power, culture, and survival.
Brief description: Viviana Díaz Balsera, professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Miami, is the author of Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions and coeditor of La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence.