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The first thirty years under the Federal Constitution encompass the most obscure period of Southern history. Thomas P. Abernethy brings this turbulent era into full focus for the first time in this book, Volume IV of A History of the South . With Spain in possession of Florida and Louisiana, claiming and partially occupying everything west of the Alleghenies and south of the Tennessee River, and with England and France attempting to exploit Spains weakness to strengthen their own positions in the New World, the Southern frontier was beset by active or potential enemies during most of the three decades under consideration. Thus the protection of our Southern and Western borders is one of the main themes of this volume. The South, of course, was not all frontier country, and the history of the well-established civilization of the South Atlantic states has not been neglected. Among the significant political and social developments which the author has reviewed at length are the transition form Washingtonian Federalism to Jeffersonian Republicanism; the unprecedented vast speculation in Western lands and their political repercussions; the separatist intrigues in the early West; such e

Author

Wendell Holmes Stephenson; E. Merton Coulter; Wesley Frank Craven; Clarence L Ver Steeg; John Richard Alden; Thomas P Abernethy; Charles S Sydnor

Publisher

[Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press / Littlefield Fund for Southern History of the University of Texas

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807100080

Subjects

History, Humanities