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For liberty and equality : the life and times of the Declaration of Independence / Alexander Tsesis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsesis, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Declaration of Independence.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
- Politics and government.
- Philosophy.
- United States--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Becoming independent
- The nation's infancy
- Youthful republic
- Compromising for the sake of expansion
- Jacksonian era democracy
- Subordination
- The unraveling bonds of union
- Sectional cataclysm
- Reconstruction
- Racial tensions
- Advancing women's causes
- The changing face of labor
- International impact & domestic advance
- The declaration in a New Deal state
- Independence principles in the civil rights era
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The declaration of independence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195379693
- 0195379691
- OCLC:
- 764591412
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