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Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida.
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1996
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Public PolicyMission ProvincesHumanitiesColonialismCaribbean StudiesLatin American StudySpanish LiteratureSpanish Cultural StudiesSpanish ColonyLa FloridaLatin American SocietyLatin American HistoryMixed Support SystemLanguage StudiesSpanishSupport SystemInter-american Relation
An examination of the Spanish colony of La Florida. It looks at the mixed support system by which Spain maintained an unprofitable but strategic colony on the contested east coast of North America for two centuries. The system included royal subventions, private subventions, and drafted labour.