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Bonapartists in the borderlands : French exiles and refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 / Rafe Blaufarb.
LIBRA F335.F8 B58 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaufarb, Rafe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Agricultural colonies.
- French Americans.
- Land tenure.
- Vine and Olive Colony.
- French Americans--Alabama--History--19th century.
- French Americans--Land tenure--Alabama--History--19th century.
- Agricultural colonies--Alabama--History--19th century.
- Alabama--History--19th century.
- Alabama.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- The tale of how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony in the rich Black Belt area near Demopolis, Alabama.
- Contents:
- The new Atlantic France
- The Society for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive
- Double and treble treachery
- Ultra-quixotism : The Bonapartist invasion of Texas
- The Vine and Olive Colony
- The fate of Vine and Olive
- Appendix : the grantees and their allotments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0817314873
- OCLC:
- 60590050
- Publisher Number:
- 9780817314873
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