The Declaration of Independence: A Global HistoryHarvard University Press, 15. 1. 2007 - Počet stran: 300 In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. |
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... claimed independence only for themselves and not for others . Their specific and particular idea of independence would nonetheless assume near - universal significance in the centuries after 1776 as the American example spread across ...
... claimed for the United States . Recovering that meaning will be a major concern of this book . Americans have been exceptionally well informed about one of the key documents in their national history . They have also had the unique ...
... claims regarding the rights of states , and were taken to be so by contemporaries , when they deigned to notice the assertions of individual rights at all . Thus a contemporary report in August 1776 noted that when the Declaration was ...
... claims regarding individ- ual rights in the Declaration's second paragraph played little part in these broader discussions . They would not be seen as crucial to the Declaration's meaning for an international audi- ence until the advent ...
... rapidly outnumbered by proliferating nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations . 33 They have also often had to confront challenges from substate groups or peoples claiming to be nations , Introduction 19.
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The World in the Declaration of Independence | 25 |
The Declaration of Independence in the World | 63 |
A World of Declarations | 101 |
Conclusion | 137 |
Declarations of Independence 17761993 | 143 |
Thomas Jeffersons Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence | 155 |
In Congress July 4 I776 A Declaration By the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled | 163 |
Jeremy Bentham Short Review of the Declaration 1776 | 171 |
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28 1835 | 207 |
The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas March 2 1836 | 209 |
of the People of the Commonwealth of Liberia July 16 1847 | 215 |
Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation October 18 1918 | 223 |
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam September 2 1945 | 229 |
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel May 14 1948 | 235 |
The Unilateral Declaration of Independence Southern Rhodesia November 11 1965 | 241 |
Notes | 247 |
Manifesto of the Province of Flanders extracts January 4 1790 | 185 |
The Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1 1804 | 191 |
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5 1811 | 197 |
Acknowledgments | 285 |
Index | 289 |