The Declaration of Independence: A Global HistoryHarvard University Press, 15.01.2007 - 300 Seiten 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. |
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... Europe , the Caribbean , and Spanish America . Now , more than two centuries since 1776 , over half the countries of the world have their own dec- larations of independence . Many of these documents drew directly on the American ...
... European sources for the Declaration's statements concerning natural rights or the right of revolution , whether in English political thought , Scottish moral theory , or Swiss philosophy , for example . That debate has concentrated ...
... Europeans and Americans that came of age in the decades before 1776 was almost the first in human history to have ready ... European empires in the Atlantic , Indian , and Pacific Oceans ; the diffusion of maps , histories , and travel ...
... European commerce and settlement that burgeoned in the years around 1776 : the Abbe Raynal's Philo- sophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Eu- ropeans in the East and West Indies ( 1770 ) , Adam Smith's ...
... European state system and in the balance of power within the Atlantic world that they brought in their wake , challenged contemporaries to under- stand their world in innovative ways . In this context , it seems to be more than just a ...
Inhalt
The World in the Declaration of Independence | 25 |
The Declaration of Independence in the World | 63 |
A World of Declarations | 101 |
Conclusion | 137 |
Declarations of Independence 17761993 | 143 |
Thomas Jeffersons Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence | 155 |
In Congress July 4 I776 A Declaration By the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled | 163 |
Jeremy Bentham Short Review of the Declaration 1776 | 171 |
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28 1835 | 207 |
The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas March 2 1836 | 209 |
of the People of the Commonwealth of Liberia July 16 1847 | 215 |
Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation October 18 1918 | 223 |
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam September 2 1945 | 229 |
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel May 14 1948 | 235 |
The Unilateral Declaration of Independence Southern Rhodesia November 11 1965 | 241 |
Notes | 247 |
Manifesto of the Province of Flanders extracts January 4 1790 | 185 |
The Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1 1804 | 191 |
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5 1811 | 197 |
Acknowledgments | 285 |
Index | 289 |