Breakaway Americas : the unmanifest future of the Jacksonian United States / Thomas Richards, Jr.
Richards, Thomas, Jr., 1983- author.
2020
E337.5 .R53 2020eb
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Title Breakaway Americas : the unmanifest future of the Jacksonian United States / Thomas Richards, Jr.
Author Richards, Thomas, Jr., 1983- author.
ISBN 9781421437149 (electronic book)
1421437147 (electronic book)
9781421437132
1421437139
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Copyright ©2020
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number E337.5 .R53 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.5
Summary "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 Indian Territory, Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley, Anglo-American overland immigrants in both Mexican California and Oregon, and Anglo-Americans in Texas -- had a common mind-set: they were not expansionists and did not believe in manifest destiny. They hoped instead to form new, independent republics based on the 'American values' that they felt were no longer being upheld in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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