Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality write by Danielle Allen. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
Declaring Independence
Declaring Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Declaring Independence write by Jay Fliegelman. This book was released on 1993. Declaring Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Preoccupied with the spectacle of sincerity, the quest for a natural language led paradoxically to a greater theatricalization of public speaking as well as to a new social dramaturgy and a deeply self-conscious performative understanding of selfhood. Concerned with recovering what was assumed but not spoken in the realm of eighteenth-century speech and action, the book treats Jefferson (whose fascination with Homer, Ossian, Patrick Henry, and music theory all relate to the new oratorical ideal) as a conflicted participant in the new rhetoric and a witness to its social costs and benefits
Declaring Our Independence
Declaring Our Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Declaring Our Independence write by Kelly Rodgers. This book was released on 2013-09-30. Declaring Our Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers will learn the history behind the Declaration of Independence and what makes it such an important document in American history. This engaging title features colorful images, informative text, and interesting facts. Featuring a table of contents, glossary, and index, this book has all the tools readers will need to learn about American independence!
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Declaration of Independence write by David Armitage. This book was released on 2007-01-15. The Declaration of Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework. He shows how the Declaration arose within a global moment in the late eighteenth century similar to our own. He uses over one hundred declarations of independence written since 1776 to show the influence and role the U.S. Declaration has played in creating a world of states out of a world of empires. He discusses why the framers’ language of natural rights did not resonate in Britain, how the document was interpreted in the rest of the world, whether the Declaration established a new nation or a collection of states, and where and how the Declaration has had an overt influence on independence movements—from Haiti to Vietnam, and from Venezuela to Rhodesia. Included is the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and sample declarations from around the world. An eye-opening list of declarations of independence since 1776 is compiled here for the first time. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.
Declaring Our Independence
Declaring Our Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Declaring Our Independence write by Corinne Brown. This book was released on 2006-10-06. Declaring Our Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Declaring Our Independence depicts the formation of the important document, the Declaration of Independence, through the sometimes nervous eyes of one of its originators, Roger Sherman. Sherman, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and many others risk treason in order to write a document that declares freedom to the citizens of a new government.
