Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835

by Rafe Blaufarb

Book Overview

Provides an important revision of the causes of the failure of France's Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama, placing it within the context of America's westward expansion

Bonapartists in the Borderlands debunks the standard account of the Vine and Olive Colony, which stresses the failure of aristocratic, luxury-loving French to tame the wilderness. Rafe Blaufarb recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358803
• ISBN13: 9780817358808
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 324 Pages