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Bonapartists in the borderlands : French exiles and refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 / Rafe Blaufarb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaufarb, Rafe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French Americans--Alabama--History--19th century.
- French Americans.
- French Americans--Land tenure--Alabama--History--19th century.
- Agricultural colonies--Alabama--History--19th century.
- Agricultural colonies.
- Vine and Olive Colony.
- Alabama--History--19th century.
- Alabama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution.Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8261-5
- OCLC:
- 424521264
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