Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America - Couverture souple

Morgan, Edmund S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393306232 ISBN 13 : 9780393306231

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

Synopsis

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process."? Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty? the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"? has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy's Gold Medal. He was the author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393306232
• ISBN 13: 9780393306231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
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• Personne responsable: non disponible