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Autore |
Dyer Justin B |
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Titolo |
American Soul : The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence |
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Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-94062-0 |
1-4422-1148-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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United States. Declaration of Independence |
United States. Declaration of Independence -- Criticism, Textual |
Regions & Countries - Americas |
History & Archaeology |
United States - General |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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American Soul; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: The Declaration and the American Founding; 1 The Declaration of Independence; 2 Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence; 3 Letters to Abigail; 4 A Short Review of the Declaration; 5 The American Mind; 6 Popular Sovereignty; 7 Keeping the Revolution; 8 The American and French Revolutions; 9 American Principles; 10 Fifty Years Later; 11 The Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; Part II: The Declaration in a House Divided; 12 Petition for Freedom; 13 The Constitution and Slavery |
14 Republican Consistency!15 Amistad Argument; 16 The Cause of the Present Crisis; 17 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?; 18 Party Platform; 19 The Dred Scott Decision; 20 Debate on the Dred Scott Decision; 21 The Chief Cornerstone; 22 Gettysburg Address; 23 Reconstructing America; Part III: The Declaration in the Modern World; 24 Seneca Falls Declaration; 25 Declaration of the Rights of Women; 26 The Inevitability of Women's Suffrage; 27 What is Progress?; 28 Speech on the Fourth of July; 29 Commonwealth Club Address; 30 Speech at the Bicentennial of the Constitution |
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