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Enemyship : democracy and counter-revolution in the early republic / / Jeremy Engels



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Autore: Engels Jeremy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Enemyship : democracy and counter-revolution in the early republic / / Jeremy Engels Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
Disciplina: 973.3/1
Soggetto topico: Political culture - United States - History - 18th century
Enemies - Political aspects - United States - History
Democracy - United States - History - 18th century
Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century
Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century
Political socialization - United States - History - 18th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1783-1809
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects
Classificazione: 15.85
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction, the second American Revolution -- How enemyship became common sense -- The dilemmas of American nationalism -- The army of the Constitution -- The contract of blood -- Conclusion, Hobbes's gamble and Franklin's warning.
Sommario/riassunto: The Declaration of Independence is usually celebrated as a radical document that inspired revolution in the English colonies, in France, and elsewhere. In Enemyship, however, Jeremy Engels views the Declaration as a rhetorical strategy that outlined wildly effective arguments justifying revolution against a colonial authority--- and then threatened political stability once independence was finally achieved. Enemyship examines what happened during the latter years of the Revolutionary War and in the immediate post-Revolutionary period, when the rhetorics and en
Titolo autorizzato: Enemyship  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62895-148-6
1-60917-210-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825982803321
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Serie: Rhetoric and public affairs series.