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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... means political separation of the kind that the represen- tatives of the United States asserted against King George III in 1776. More broadly , independence implies national distinc- tiveness and difference . Over time , separation and ...
... means the traces of a wider world embedded in one relatively brief and pungent document . That document took on a life of its own as it circulated at home and abroad : out of its travels emerged another kind of global history , the ...
... means to be an American and few words can sum up the American creed as succinctly as " the rights to Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap- piness . " Yet even in its earliest material forms , the Declaration offered evidence of ...
... had barely begun in July 1776. The document inaugurated a genre of political writ- ing that has persisted to the present day . By " genre " I mean a distinct but repeatable structure of argument and literary form . Introduction 13.
... mean- ings in the Declaration during the decades immediately follow- ing 1776. Shifting international contexts in those years of war , revolution , and state - formation helped to change even the American understanding of the ...
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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 |