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James Monroe

A Republican Champion

University Press of Florida

Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father. In this book, Brook Poston reveals how Monroe attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism.    

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Letters of George Long Brown

A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

University Press of Florida

This book collects previously unpublished letters written by a merchant in north Florida before the Civil War, offering a view of the region’s transformation to a market economy due in part to its increased reliance on slavery.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Borderland Narratives

Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Freedom and Resistance

A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas

University Press of Florida

After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing with white loyalists who tried either to bind them to illegal indentured contracts or to enslave them.

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Creole City

A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans

University Press of Florida
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Endgame for Empire

British-Creek Relations in Georgia and Vicinity, 17631776

University Press of Florida

John Juricek explains how British failures, including the growing gap between promises and actions, led not only to a loss of potential allies among the Creeks but also to the rapid conversion of dutiful British subjects into outraged revolutionaries.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Entangling Migration History

Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada

University Press of Florida
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