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Bonapartists in the borderlands : French exiles and refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 / Rafe Blaufarb

Author
Blaufarb, Rafe
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Language Note
English.
Contents
The new Atlantic France -- The Society for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive -- Double and treble treachery -- Ultra-quixotism : The Bonapartist invasion of Texas -- The Vine and Olive Colony -- The fate of Vine and Olive -- Appendix : the grantees and their allotments.
Summary
Presents an account of how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents. This book shows that the Napoleonic officers involved in the colony sold their land shares to speculators to finance the invading of the contested Texas borderlands between Spain and the US.
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ISBN
9780817382612 (electronic bk.)
0817382615 (electronic bk.)
0817314873
9780817314873
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
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