Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not the Nation, was the most important product of independence.In 1774, everyone in British North America was a subject of King George and Parliament. In 1776 a number of newly independent states, composed of American citizens began cobbling together a Union to fight their former fellow countrymen. But who was an American? What did it mean to be a citi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8139-3576-8
- EAN: 9780813935768
- Produktnummer: 15744906
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 692 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 692
Über den Autor
Douglas Bradburn, Director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, is the author of Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion (Virginia).
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