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The Lost State of Franklin
America's First Secession
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813129877
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.09.2010
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Kevin T Barksdale
Gewicht:
481 g
Format:
228x153x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kevin T. Barksdale is professor of American history at Marshall University. A specialist in Appalachian history and culture, he is the author of The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, and serves as editor of West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies.
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.