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The lost state of Franklin : America's first secession / Kevin T. Barksdale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barksdale, Kevin T., 1973-
- Series:
- New directions in southern history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secession.
- History.
- Social conflict.
- Franklin (State)--History.
- Franklin (State).
- Tennessee River Valley--History.
- Tennessee River Valley.
- Social conflict--Tennessee River Valley--History.
- Tennessee River Valley--Social conditions.
- Tennessee River Valley--Politics and government.
- Secession--Tennessee River Valley--History.
- Secession--United States--Case studies.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 283 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813125213
- 0813125219
- OCLC:
- 213840212
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