America’s Forgotten Constitutions

Defiant Visions of Power and Community

Robert L. Tsai

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674059955

Publication Date: 04/29/2014

Short

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

World

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Preface
Prologue
1. The Republic of Indian Stream, 1832–1835
2. The Icarian Nation, 1848–1895
3. John Brown’s America, 1856–1859
4. Confederate Anxieties, 1860–1865
5. The Sequoyah Convention, 1905
6. A Charter for the World, 1947
7. The Republic of New Afrika, 1968
8. The Pacific Northwest Homeland, 2006
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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