Declaration of Independence in Historical Context Our Declaration

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Declaration of Independence in
Historical Context
v pevné vazbě, 704 stran
vyd. Yale University Press, IX/2015
ISBN 9780300158748
běžná cena 3.425 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 2.800 Kč vč. DPH
Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions and
proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of
Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape
contemporary understanding of this all-important document. Rather than arising from
strong philosophical convictions and a clearly perceived vision of the future, the
Declaration, as these writings demonstrate, was more the result of chance
occurrences and practical considerations, and reflective of a society less rebellionminded and far more monarchically inclined than most Americans today have been
taught to believe.
Admiral De Grasse and American
Independence
Our Declaration
vyd. WW Norton & Co, VII/2014
ISBN 9780871406903
běžná cena 854 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 700 Kč vč. DPH
In just 1,337 words, the Declaration of Independence altered the course of history.
Written in 1776, it is the most profound document in the history of government since the
Magna Carta, signed nearly 800 years ago in 1215. Yet despite its paramount
importance, the Declaration, curiously, is rarely read from start to finish much less
understood.
Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what it says, Danielle Allen, a
political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore
the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night students and University
of Chicago undergraduates. Keenly aware that the Declaration is riddled with
contradictions liberating some while subjugating slaves and Native Americans Allen and
her students nonetheless came to see that the Declaration makes a coherent and riveting
argument about equality. They found not a historical text that required memorization, but
an animating force that could and did transform the course of their everyday lives.
Independence: Tangled Roots of
American Revolution
v měkké vazbě, 404 stran
vyd. Naval Institute Press, VII/2014
ISBN 9781591144144
vyd. Hill & Wang Inc., VII/2014
ISBN 9780809058341
The average American knows little or nothing of the great service rendered by Admiral
de Grasse, a French admiral, to the cause of American independence in the battle off
Cape Henry in 1781. The battle off Cape Henry had ultimate effects more important
than those of Waterloo. De Grasse's action entailed upon the British the final loss of
the thirteen colonies in America.
This biography by Charles Lee Lewis places this supremely important naval battle off
the Virginia Capes in its proper historical perspective, and gives de Grasse the full
credit for rendering the aid which made possible the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Washington fully recognized this aid, when he wrote to de Grasse following the
surrender of Cornwallis and expressed his gratitude "in the name of America for the
glorious event for which she is indebted to you." Without de Grasse's victory all the
military efforts on land made by Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington would have
been in vain. The battle off Cape Henry was only one of numerous battles fought by
this dashing Gallic sea captain.
Over fifty years of his long life, 1722-1788, were spent in the service of Louis XV and
Louis XVI, in the Mediterranean, in India, on the North American coast, and in the
West Indies. He fought in all the wars of his day, the War of the Austrian Succession,
the Seven Years' War, and the War of the American Revolution.
"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815.
"The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of
it." As the distinguished historian Thomas P.
Slaughter shows in this landmark history, the roots of the Revolution went back even
further than Adams may have realized. In Slaughter's account, colonists in British North
America starting in the early seventeenth century chafed under imperial rule. Though
successive British kings called them lawless, they insisted on their moral courage and
political principles, and regarded their independence as a great virtue.
Their struggles to define this independence took many forms: from New England and
Nova Scotia to New York and Pennsylvania and south to the Carolinas, colonists resisted
unsympathetic royal governors, smuggled to evade British duties, and organized for
armed uprisings. In the eighteenth century-especially after victories over France-the
British were eager to crush these rebellions, but American opposition only intensified. In
Independence, Slaughter resets and clarifies the terms of this remarkable development,
showing how and why a critical mass of colonists determined that they could not be both
independent and subject to the British Crown.
Decolonization and Cold War:
Negotiating Independence
Band of Giants: Amateur Soldiers Who
Won America's Independence
vyd. Bloomsbury Academic, XII/2014
ISBN 9781472571205
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, X/2014
ISBN 9781137278777
The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world. This
volume brings together an international line-up of experts to explore how these
transformations took place and expand on some of the latest threads of analysis to
help inform our understanding of the links between the two phenomena.The book
begins by exploring ideas of modernity, development, and economics as Cold War and
postcolonial projects and goes on to look at the era's intellectual history and
investigate how emerging forms of identity fought for supremacy. Finally, the
contributors question ideas of sovereignty and state control that move beyond
traditional Cold War narratives."Decolonization and the Cold War" emphasizes new
approaches by drawing on various methodologies, regions, themes, and
interdisciplinary work, to shed new light on two topics that are increasingly important to
historians of the twentieth century.
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence. Jefferson,
Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less
familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting
men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war.
We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took
over the American artillery at the age of 25? Eighteen counties in the United States
commemorate Richard Montgomery, but do we know that this revered martyr launched a
full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of the Revolution were a diverse lot:
merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were
ardent amateurs. Even George Washington, assigned to take over the army around
Boston in 1775, consulted books on military tactics.
Band of Giants vividly captures the fraught condition of the war - the bitterly divided
populace, the lack of supplies, the repeated setbacks on the battlefield, and the appalling
physical hardships. That these inexperienced warriors could take on and defeat the
superpower of the day was one of the remarkable feats in world history.
For Liberty and Equality: Life and Times
of Declaration of Independence
First American Declaration of
Independence?
vyd. Oxford University Press,
VII/2014
ISBN 9780199325269
vyd. McFarland & Co, I/2014
ISBN 9780786475599
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most influential documents in modern
history-the inspiration for what would become the most powerful democracy in the
world. Indeed, at every stage of American history, the Declaration has been a
touchstone for evaluating the legitimacy of legal, social, and political practices. Not
only have civil rights activists drawn inspiration from its proclamation of inalienable
rights, but individuals decrying a wide variety of governmental abuses have turned for
support to the document's enumeration of British tyranny.
In this sweeping synthesis of the Declaration's impact on American life, ranging from
1776 to the present, Alexander Tsesis offers a deeply researched narrative that
highlights the many surprising ways in which this document has influenced American
politics, law, and society. The drafting of the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction
Amendments, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement-all are heavily indebted to the
Declaration's principles of representative government. Tsesis demonstrates that from
the founding on, the Declaration has played a central role in American political and
social advocacy, congressional debates, and presidential decisions.
This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest mysteries in American history--did
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declare independence from Great Britain more than
a year before anyone else? According to local legend, on May 20, 1775, in a log court
house in the remote backcountry two dozen local militia leaders met to discuss the
deteriorating state of affairs in the American colonies. As they met, a horseman arrived
bringing news of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Enraged, they unanimously
declared Mecklenburg County "free and independent" from Great Britain. It was known as
the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" ("MecDec" for short). A local tavern
owner named James Jack delivered the MecDec to the Continental Congress, who found
it "premature."
All of this occurred more than a year before the national Declaration of Independence.
But is the story true? The evidence is mixed. John Adams believed the MecDec
represented "the genuine sense of America" while Thomas Jefferson believed the story
was "spurious." This book sets out all of the evidence, pro and con.
Independence Hall in American Memory
vyd. University of Pennsylvania
Press, XII/2013
ISBN 9780812222821
Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and
Revolutionary Communications in Early
America
vyd. Oxford University Press, IX/2014
ISBN 9780199354900
Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the
Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding
Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there.
Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to
have passed through time unscathed, from the heady days of the American Revolution
to today. But Independence Hall is more than a symbol of the young nation. Beyond
this, according to Charlene Mires, it has a long and varied history of changing uses in
an urban environment, almost all of which have been forgotten.
In Independence Hall, Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of
Independence Hall, in the process exploring the shifting perceptions of this most
important building in America's popular imagination. According to Mires, the
significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the
full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly
three centuries. During its existence, it has functioned as a civic and cultural center, a
political arena and courtroom, and a magnet for public celebrations and
demonstrations.
History of United States from Their First
Settlement as Colonies
Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic,
revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were
declared virtues of the period-but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized
publication were no less the life's blood of liberty.
Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine;
the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides
various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our
instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By
focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications,
Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical
transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in
a democracy.
Oxford Handbook of American
Revolution
vyd. Book on Demand, IV/2013
ISBN 9785518726628
vyd. Oxford University Press, I/2013
ISBN 9780199746705
History of the United States from their first settlement ascolonies, to the close of the
war with Great Britain, in 1815 This book, "History of the United States from their first
settlement as colonies", by Salma Hale, is a replication of a book originally published
before 1825. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may
enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and
generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three
individual essays, by thirty-three authorities on the Revolution, the Handbook provides
readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides, ranging from the military
and diplomatic to the social and political; from the economic and financial, to the cultural
and legal. Its cast of characters ranges far, including ordinary farmers and artisans, men
and women, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American
statesmen and military leaders.
Its geographic scope is equally broad. The Handbook offers readers an American
Revolution whose geo-political and military impact ranged from the West Indies to the
Mississippi Valley; from the British Isles to New England and from Nova Scotia to Florida.
The American Revolution of the Handbook is, simply put, an event that far transcended
the boundaries of what was to become the United States.

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