《Rogue Republic : How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American》是2011年4月Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版的圖書，作者是William C. Davis。
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- 中文名：Rogue Republic : How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American
- 作者：William C. Davis
- 出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN：9780151009251
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida— what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida— to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s endless territory contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing a new government. By the time President Madison sent troops to occupy the territory, assert U.S. authority under the Louisiana Purchase, and restore order, West Florida's settlers had already announced their independence, becoming our country's shortest-lived rogue "republic."
Meticulously researched and populated with the colorful characters that make American history a joy, this is the story of a young country testing out its power on the global stage and a lost chapter in how the frontier spirit came to define American character. The first treatment of this little-known historical moment, The Rogue Republic shows how hardscrabble frontiersmen and gentleman farmers planted the seeds of civil war, marked the dawn of Manifest Destiny, and laid groundwork for the American empire.
圖書目錄
Dramatis Personae
Preface: Revolutions
1 Realm of Happiness
2 Kemper & His Madly Deluded Party
3 The Late Insurrection at Baton Rouge
4 Birds of a Feather
5 You Have Ruined Our Country
6 Live Hogs, Bees-Wax, Coffee, Etc.
7 A Second Edition of the Kemper Attempt
8 Our Tribunal Cannot Be Men of Business
9 The Spirit of Independence
10 A New Order of Things
11 Thus Has Terminated the Revolution
12 A Battle for the Freedom of the World
13 The Commonwealth of West Florida
14 Our Infant but Beloved Country
15 The Star Will Rise and Shine
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作者簡介
WILLIAM C. DAVIS is the director of programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and chief consultant for the AE television series Civil War Journal. Davis teaches history at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg,Virginia.
