Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

"In Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South, Daniel S. Dupre offers a well-written, nicely comprehensive, and inclusive social history of Alabama before and immediately after statehood."—H-AmIndian

"Dupre has written a succinct narrative that will be helpful to anyone seeking an introduction to the interaction of European powers, the United States, and Indian tribes in Alabama and the Southeast."—Western Historical Quarterly

"Demonstrating an immersion into the most recent historiography and a keen ability to condense that scholarship into a new synthesis, Dupre offers a provocative consideration of how the peoples of a region—native, white, and black—were transformed by their interactions.In the Old Southwest's historiographical landscape, dominated by economic history,Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old Southwill have a substantial impact."—Craig Thompson Friend, author of, Kentucke's Frontiers

"Alabama, like other future states carved from Transappalachia, experienced several frontiers.Beginning with De Soto's attempted entrada in 1540, its many diverse Native Americans met Spanish, British, and ultimately American invaders. Dupre is especially clear on how each successivefrontier really worked through the centuries until, by 1840 and Creek "removal," the cotton frontier took hold. Well-sourced and well-written, this book is a fascinating read."—Walter Nugent, author of 'Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion'

"Three great streams of humanity fashioned the story of the Alabama frontiers over two centuries: the native American people who had occupied this landscape for centuries; the arrival of Anglo-Americans, who sought the lands from the first group; the growing steam of slaves from the Upper South who cleared the farms and plantations and then worked them. No historian has captured the interactions of these three groups with such insight as Daniel Dupre's Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. A remarkable contribution to frontier and Southern history."—Malcolm Rohrbough, author of 'Rush to Gold'

"Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South is a work of synthesis backed by research in primary sources. . . . The wonderful balance Dupre strikes between big-picture interpretation and small-picture detail as well as the engaging and accessible prose make the book fit for a number of sub-field specialists and lay readers alike."—Journal of the Early Republic