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Adventurism and empire : the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762-1803
- Title
- Adventurism and empire : the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762-1803 / David Narrett.
- Author
- Narrett, David E., 1951-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 375 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Borderlands
- Louisiana
- Spain
- Florida
- United States > Foreign relations > Spain
- Borderlands > United States > History > 18th century
- Gulf States > History > To 1803
- United States > Gulf States
- History
- Louisiana > History > To 1803
- Spain > Foreign relations > United States
- To 1821
- Florida > History > To 1821
- West Florida > History
- United States > West Florida
- Diplomatic relations
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-364) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787 -- Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisiana: British imperialism and the Mississippi-Gulf frontier, 1766-1775 -- Opening salvos in a Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 -- Multiple conflicts: warfare and a disputed peace, 1779-1783 -- Bidding and conspiring for access to the realm, 1783-1787 -- Part II. New empires, new republics, 1787-1803 -- Prologue: Wilkinson and the imperial self -- License to venture: colonization and commercial adventurism -- Frontier separatism and integration -- Conspiracies and international turmoil -- Intrigues across Creek Country and beyond -- The imperial question at century's end -- Conclusion: the impermanence of boundaries.
- Call Number
- ICI 15-2749
- ISBN
- 9781469618333 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1469618338 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781469618340 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014039230
- OCLC
- 875742372
- Author
- Narrett, David E., 1951-
- Title
- Adventurism and empire : the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762-1803 / David Narrett.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-364) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1821
- Research Call Number
- ICI 15-2749