The Declaration
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The Declaration
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Author : Gemma Malley
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012
The Declaration written by Gemma Malley and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Sixteen-year-old Anna should not have been born. It is the year 2140 and people can live for ever. No one wants another mouth to feed, so she lives in a Surplus Hall, where unwanted children go to learn valuable lessons . . . at least she wasn't put down at birth.One day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. He says things about her parents and the Outside that couldn't possibly be true . . . Or could they?Thrilling, passionate and beautifully written, this dystopian novel is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games
American Scripture
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Author : Pauline Maier
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-02-15
American Scripture written by Pauline Maier and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-15 with History categories.
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.
The Declaration Of Independence
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Author : David Armitage
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
The Declaration Of Independence written by David Armitage and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with History categories.
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.
Our Declaration A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense Of Equality
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Author : Danielle Allen
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-06-23
Our Declaration A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense Of Equality written by Danielle Allen and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with History categories.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “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 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).
The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of Citizens
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Author : Georg Jellinek
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-05-18
The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of Citizens written by Georg Jellinek and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Political Science categories.
Georg Jellinek argues in his essay The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen for a universal theory of rights, as opposed to the culturally and nationally specific arguments then in vogue. Jellinek indicates that the French Revolution, which was the focal point of 19th-century political theory, should not be thought of as arising from a purely French tradition (namely the tradition stemming from Jean-Jacques Rousseau) but as a close analogue of revolutionary movements and ideas in England and the United States.
The Declaration Of Independence In Historical Context
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Author : Barry Alan Shain
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-10
The Declaration Of Independence In Historical Context written by Barry Alan Shain and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with History categories.
Letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the mid-18th century in the American colonies, provide a different historical perspective on the Declaration of Independence.
What Is The Declaration Of Independence
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Author : Michael C. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-05-10
What Is The Declaration Of Independence written by Michael C. Harris and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation—The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom, and the Declaration of Independence made that official. Discover the true story of one of the most radical and uplifting documents in history and follow the action that fueled the Revolutionary War.
The Declaration Of Independence
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Author : Herbert Friedenwald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
The Declaration Of Independence written by Herbert Friedenwald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with United States categories.
The Declaration Of Independence
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Author : Lora Polack Oberle
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2002
The Declaration Of Independence written by Lora Polack Oberle and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Content area reading categories.
Provides background information on the people and events connected with the writing of the Declaration of Independence and introduces the contents of the document itself.
For Liberty And Equality
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Author : Alexander Tsesis
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-06-05
For Liberty And Equality written by Alexander Tsesis and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with History categories.
For Liberty and Equality shows how the Declaration of Independence actually worked in each era, and why its influence has been crucial to the development of the American nation and way of life.