Breakaway Americas : the unmanifest future of the Jacksonian United States /
The author examines six attempts by groups of nineteenth-century Americans to escape, rather than extend, the borders of the United States. Although their goals and methods varied, these six groups, 'patriots' who attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada, post-removal Cherokees in the...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The Texas moment
- Perfecting America in Canada
- Mormon Zion and the quest for an American theocracy
- The Cherokee Nation and the quest for a native republic
- The seigneurial Republic of California
- The White Yeoman's Republic of Oregon
- The end of the Texas moment
- Epilogue: The splintering and reemergence of the Texas moment.