The Declaration of Independence: A Global HistoryHarvard University Press, 30. 6. 2009 - Počet stran: 300 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. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world. |
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... dence from Northern and Southern Europe, the Caribbean, and Spanish America. Now, more than two centuries since 1776, over half the countries of the world have their own dec- larations of independence. Many of these documents drew ...
... dence from Northern and Southern Europe, the Caribbean, and Spanish America. Now, more than two centuries since 1776, over half the countries of the world have their own dec- larations of independence. Many of these documents drew ...
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... dence 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 ...
... dence 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 ...
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... dence as I examine successively the evidence of the world in the Declaration, the Declaration's fortunes in the late eigh- teenth- and early nineteenth-century world, and the myriad declarations of independence produced since 1776. The ...
... dence as I examine successively the evidence of the world in the Declaration, the Declaration's fortunes in the late eigh- teenth- and early nineteenth-century world, and the myriad declarations of independence produced since 1776. The ...
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... dence. Urgent international pressures had compelled Congress to issue a declaration in the early summer of 1776. Accordingly, the Declaration reflected a range of concerns about security, defense, commerce, and immigration. As a ...
... dence. Urgent international pressures had compelled Congress to issue a declaration in the early summer of 1776. Accordingly, the Declaration reflected a range of concerns about security, defense, commerce, and immigration. As a ...
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... hundred declarations of indepen- dence have been issued since 1776, indicating a great political transformation of the last two centuries: the gradual emergence of a world—our world—of states from an earlier world dominated 20 Introduction.
... hundred declarations of indepen- dence have been issued since 1776, indicating a great political transformation of the last two centuries: the gradual emergence of a world—our world—of states from an earlier world dominated 20 Introduction.
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2 The Declaration of Independence in the World | 63 |
3 A World of Declarations | 103 |
Conclusion | 139 |
Declarations of Independence 17761993 | 145 |
Thomas Jeffersons Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence | 157 |
In Congress July 4 1776 A Declaration By the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled | 165 |
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28 1835 | 209 |
The Unanimous Declaration of Independencemade by the Delegates of the People of Texas March 21836 | 211 |
A Declaration of Independence by the Representatives of the People of the Commonwealth of Liberia July 16 1847 | 217 |
Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation October 18 1918 | 225 |
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam September 2 1945 | 231 |
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel May 14 1948 | 237 |
The Unilateral Declaration of Independence Southern Rhodesia November 11 1965 | 243 |
Notes | 249 |
Jeremy Bentham Short Review of theDeclaration 1776 | 173 |
Manifesto of the Province of Flanders extracts January 4 1790 | 187 |
The Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1 1804 | 193 |
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5 1811 | 199 |
Acknowledgments | 287 |
Index | 291 |
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