The lost state of Franklin : America's first secession /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barksdale, Kevin T., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2009.
Series:New directions in southern history.
Subjects:
Social conflict > Tennessee River Valley > History.
Secession > Tennessee River Valley > History.
Secession > United States > Case studies.
Sécession > Tennessee, Vallée du > Histoire.
Sécession > États-Unis > Études de cas.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Politics and government
Secession
Social conditions
Social conflict
Franklin (State) > History.
Tennessee River Valley > History.
Tennessee River Valley > Social conditions.
Tennessee River Valley > Politics and government.
Tennessee, Vallée du > Histoire.
Tennessee, Vallée du > Conditions sociales.
Tennessee > Franklin (State)
United States
United States > Tennessee River Valley
Case studies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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