The Star-spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation - Couverture souple

Shalev, Eran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813953855 ISBN 13 : 9780813953854

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2025

Synopsis

Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic, Eran Shalev answers this and many other questions, considering the cosmic imagery - so familiar today but so peculiar on reflection - that suffused the United States' early political culture. In this comprehensive study, Shalev uncovers how 'political astronomy' - the discussion and representation of politics through astronomical models, allusions, and metaphors - reflected and facilitated the emerging worldview that enabled Americans to justify and find meaning in the country's new democratic modes of governance and its federal system. No other scholar has looked at American political rhetoric through this lens in so doing, Shalev is able to explain in fascinating detail how Americans turned away from the sun of heliocentric monarchy toward the night sky full of federated constellations, and to discover republicanism imprinted in the firmament.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eran Shalev is Professor of History at Haifa University and the author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (2009), and American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813953855
• ISBN 13: 9780813953854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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