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The Lost State of Franklin : America's First Secession /

Amid the economic turmoil, Native American warfare, and political unrest following the Revolutionary War, the leadership of the Tennessee Valley declared their region independent from North Carolina and formed the state of Franklin. In The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, Kevi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barksdale, Kevin T., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Footstool of liberty's throne : hero-making versus historiography
  • Land of the Franks : the backcountry economy of upper east Tennessee
  • Acts of designing men : community, conflict, and control
  • Agreeable to a republican government : the rise of backcountry partisanship, 1784-1785
  • Strange spectacle of two empires : statesmanship, speculation, and the dimming fortunes of separatism
  • Where the fire of peace is always kept burning : land, diplomacy, and the tragedy of the Tennessee Valley's principal people
  • Death in all its various and frightful shapes : the last days of the state of Franklin
  • Vassals del Rey de España : the Franklin-Spanish conspiracy, 1786-1789
  • Rocked to death in the cradle of secession : the antebellum evolution of Franklin, 1783-1861
  • Epilogue: Finding Frankland : the legacy of separation in the twentieth century.