American Scripture: How America Declared Its Independence from Britain - Couverture souple

Maier, Pauline

 
9780712665209: American Scripture: How America Declared Its Independence from Britain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 071266520X ISBN 13 : 9780712665209
Editeur : Pimlico, 1999

Synopsis

Pauline Maier, one of today's foremost authorities on the American Revolution, shows the 1776 Declaration of Independence as both the defining statement of national identity and the moral standard by which Americans live as a nation. It is truly American scripture and Maier tells us how this came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard, tortured struggle for independence from Britain to the ways in which the document itself is sanctified in the nineteenth century. Delving back into English history - from the Magna Carta in 1215 to the trial of Charles I in 1649 - Maier reveals the origins of key ideas and phrases. she unravels the complex story of its drafting and editing and shows what happened to it after the signing - its part in nineteenth-century political wars, and how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Pauline Maier, one of today's foremost authorities on the American Revolution, shows the 1776 Declaration of Independence as both the defining statement of national identity and the moral standard by which Americans live as a nation. It is truly American scripture and Maier tells us how this came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard, tortured struggle for independence from Britain to the ways in which the document itself is sanctified in the nineteenth century. Delving back into English history - from the Magna Carta in 1215 to the trial of Charles I in 1649 - Maier reveals the origins of key ideas and phrases. she unravels the complex story of its drafting and editing and shows what happened to it after the signing - its part in nineteenth-century political wars, and how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society.

Biographie de l'auteur

Pauline Maier is William R. Kennan Jr., Professor of America History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of From Resistance to Revolution and The Old Revolutionaries.

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Éditeur
Pimlico
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
071266520X
ISBN 13 
9780712665209
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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