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Autore: | Engels Jeremy |
Titolo: | Enemyship [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and counter-revolution in the early republic / / Jeremy Engels |
Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010 |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
ISBN: | 1-62895-148-6 |
1-60917-210-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457376403321 |
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