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 Cherokee...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.