The  lost state of Franklin
Subtitle: America's first secession
By: Kevin T. Barksdale.
Series: New directions in southern history
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780813125213
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
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Footstool of liberty's throne : hero-making versus historiography; title: Land of the Franks : the backcountry economy of upper east Tennessee; title: Acts of designing men : community, conflict, and control; title: Agreeable to a republican government : the rise of backcountry partisanship, 1784-1785; title: Strange spectacle of two empires : statesmanship, speculation, and the dimming fortunes of separatism; title: Where the fire of peace is always kept burning : land, diplomacy, and the tragedy of the Tennessee Valley's principal people; title: Death in all its various and frightful shapes : the last days of the state of Franklin; title: Vassals del Rey de España : the Franklin-Spanish conspiracy, 1786-1789; title: Rocked to death in the cradle of secession : the antebellum evolution of Franklin, 1783-1861; title: Epilogue: Finding Frankland : the legacy of separation in the twentieth century.