Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The Texas Moment
Chapter Two. Perfecting America in Canada
Chapter Three. Mormon Zion and the Quest for an American Theocracy
Chapter Four. The Cherokee Nation and the Quest for a Native Republic
Chapter Five. The Seigneurial Republic of California
Chapter Six. The White Yeomen's Republic of Oregon
Chapter Seven. The End of the Texas Moment
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States—and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory.

About the Author

Thomas Richards, Jr. earned his PhD in American history from Temple University. He is a history teacher at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.

Reviews

Breakaway Americas is an important book in that it reminds historians that contingency mattered in helping to shape the eventual borders of the United States.
—Michael A. Hill, American Nineteenth Century History