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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... document he had drafted half a century before . As he declined an invitation to attend the commemora- tion in Washington , D.C. , of the fiftieth anniversary of Ameri- can independence , Jefferson called the Declaration " an instru ...
... documents around the world that asserted the independence of other new states . By the time Jefferson called the Declaration " an instrument pregnant with ... the fate of the world " in 1826 , it had already been joined by some twenty ...
A Global History David Armitage. Many of these documents drew directly on the American Declaration for inspiration . They adopted and sometimes adapted specific phrases from the Declaration . More often , they took its structure as a ...
... documents . So it has proved with declarations of independence . Multiple declarations of independence have been collected for comparison on only two occasions . The first was in 1955 , in advance of a meeting of the Organization of ...
... documents in their national history . They have also had the unique opportunity to learn just who in the United States read the Declaration , how they interpreted it , and with what political and legal consequences . No other ...
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 |