Nexus of empire : negotiating loyalty and identity in the revolutionary borderlands, 1760s-1820s / edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Gene Allen, 1963-

Hilton, Sylvia L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

History.

Social change.

Loyalty.

Social aspects.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology).

Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.

Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Identity (Psychology)--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.

Identity (Psychology)--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Group identity--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.

Group identity--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Loyalty--Social aspects--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.

Loyalty--Social aspects--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Social change--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History.

Nationalism--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]

Contents:

Part I Changing Flags and Political Uncertainty

Introduction / Gene Allen Smith, Sylvia L. Hilton 3

1 Loyalty and Patriotism on North American Frontiers: Being and Becoming Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 1776-1803 / Sylvia L. Hilton 8

Part II Dilemmas Among Native Americans and Free Blacks

2 "Like to Have Made a War among Ourselves": The Creek Indians and the Coming of the War of the Revolution / Kathryn E. Holland Braund 39

3 Louis LeClerc De Milford, a.k.a. General Francois Tastanegy: An Eighteenth-Century French Adventurer among the Creeks / Gilbert C. Din 63

4 Marie Thřz̈e dit Coincoin: A Free Black Woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier / H. Sophie Burton 89

5 To Strike a Balance: New Orleans' Free Colored Community and the Diplomacy of William Charles Cole Claiborne / Erin M. Greenwald 113

6 Dehahuit: An Indian Diplomat on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1804-1815 / F. Todd Smith 140

Part III Building Fortunes through Family Connections and Local Community

7 The Nature of Loyalty: Antonio Gil Ibarvo and the East Texas Frontier / J. Edward Townes 163

8 Philip Livingston, Chameleon "Premier" of West Florida / Robin F. A. Fabel 183

9 Oliver Pollock and the Creation of an American Identity in Spanish Colonial Louisiana / Light Townsend Cummins 198

10 Bordermakers and Landed Women: The Rouquier Sisters of Colonial Natchitoches / Betje Black Klier, Diane M. T. North 219

11 Daniel Clark: Merchant Prince of New Orleans / Elizabeth Urban Alexander 241

Part IV Personal Ambition in Government and Military Service

12 William Dunbar, William Claiborne, and Daniel Clark: Intersections of Loyalty and National Identity on the Florida Frontier / Andrew McMichael 271

13 "Motivated Only by the Love of Humanity": Arsn̈e Lacarrir̈e Latour and the Struggle for the Southwest / Gene Allen Smith 298

14 Soldier, Expansionist, Politician: Eleazer Wheelock Ripley and the Dance of Ambition in the Early Republic / Samuel Watson 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813033990

0813033993

OCLC:

316826745