The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context: American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, & Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congress - Couverture souple

Shain, Barry Alan

 
9780865978898: The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context: American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, & Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congress
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0865978891 ISBN 13 : 9780865978898
Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 2015

Synopsis

For over a century scholars have analysed and interpreted the meaning and context of the Declaration of Independence in myriad ways. As Barry Alan Shain points out, Intellectual historians and political theorists have made every effort to make the Declarations theoretically rich second paragraph the foundation of all manner of American political thought and creeds... There are, a minimum, seven competing schools of interpretation. The documents presented in this edition help in understanding the Declaration and the Revolutionary War against the backdrop provided by the hundreds of continental-level congressional state papers declarations, petitions, resolutions, and proclamations and the debates and correspondence of those in attendance at the first national congresses.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For over a century scholars have analysed and interpreted the meaning and context of the Declaration of Independence in myriad ways. As Barry Alan Shain points out, Intellectual historians and political theorists have made every effort to make the Declarations theoretically rich second paragraph the foundation of all manner of American political thought and creeds... There are, a minimum, seven competing schools of interpretation. The documents presented in this edition help in understanding the Declaration and the Revolutionary War against the backdrop provided by the hundreds of continental-level congressional state papers declarations, petitions, resolutions, and proclamations and the debates and correspondence of those in attendance at the first national congresses.

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Éditeur
Liberty Fund Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865978891
ISBN 13 
9780865978898
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Nombre de pages
782
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