The lost state of Franklin America's first secession / Kevin T. Barksdale.

By:

Barksdale, Kevin T, 1973- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813150093
9780813135199

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F436 .L678 2009

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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 -- Finding Frankland : the legacy of separation in the twentieth century.

Subject: Amid the economic turmoil, Native American warfare, and political unrest following the Revolutionary War, the leadership of the Tennessee Valley declared their region independent from North Carolina and formed the state of Franklin. In The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, Kevin T. Barksdale chronicles the rise and fall of the ill-fated Franklin statehood movement. Barksdale describes the dramatic four years in which the Franklinites crafted a backcountry bureaucracy, expanded their regional market economy, and nearly eradicated the southwestern frontier's Native American population, all with the goal of becoming America's fourteenth state. Although the Franklin statehood movement collapsed in 1788, East Tennesseans still regard Franklin as a symbol of their rugged individualism, regional identity, and civic dignity. - Publisher.

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Amid the economic turmoil, Native American warfare, and political unrest following the Revolutionary War, the leadership of the Tennessee Valley declared their region independent from North Carolina and formed the state of Franklin. In The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, Kevin T. Barksdale chronicles the rise and fall of the ill-fated Franklin statehood movement. Barksdale describes the dramatic four years in which the Franklinites crafted a backcountry bureaucracy, expanded their regional market economy, and nearly eradicated the southwestern frontier's Native American population, all with the goal of becoming America's fourteenth state. Although the Franklin statehood movement collapsed in 1788, East Tennesseans still regard Franklin as a symbol of their rugged individualism, regional identity, and civic dignity. - Publisher.

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