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The lost state of Franklin : America's first secession
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- Creator
- Kevin T. Barksdale
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xi, 283 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813129877, 1322596093, 0813125219, 0813129877, 0813135192, 9780813150093, 9780813125213, 0813150094, 9780813135199
- OCLC
- ocn213840212, ocn900344504
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-272) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Social conflict -- Tennessee River Valley -- History.
- Secession -- Tennessee River Valley -- History.
- Secession -- United States -- Case studies.
- Franklin (State) -- History.
- Tennessee River Valley -- History.
- Tennessee River Valley -- Social conditions.
- Tennessee River Valley -- Politics and government.