Florida Founder William P. Duval - Frontier Bon Vivant

The biography of a well-connected, but nearly forgotten American antebellum politician

About the author

James M. Denham is a professor of history and director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He is the author of A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861, and coauthor of Florida Sheriffs: A History, 1821-1945, as well as two University of South Carolina Press books--Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillette Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams and Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters' Correspondence in Antebellum Florida.

Summary

Each day thousands of revellers trudge down DuVal Street in Florida’s Key West, but few know for whom the street is named. In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.

Product details

• Authors: James M Denham, James M. Denham
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781611174663
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-466-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century