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The Declaration of Independence: a global history

Creator: Armitage, David

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"--Publisher website (July 2007).

OCLC #: 648674203
ISBN #:
- 9780674020276
- 0674020278
- 067403032X
- 9780674030329
Call #: E221.A735 2007eb
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Language:
- English.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 300 pages)
Contents:
- Introduction
- The world in the Declaration of independence
- The Declaration of independence in the world
- A world of declarations
- Conclusion
- Declarations of independence, 1776-1993
- Thomas Jefferson's "original rough draft" of the Declaration of independence
- In Congress, July 4, 1776 : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled
- Short review of the Declaration (1776) / Jeremy Bentham
- Manifesto of the Province of Flanders [extracts] (January 4, 1790)
- The Haitian Declaration of independence (January 1, 1804)
- The Venezuelan Declaration of independence (July 5, 1811)
- Declaration of the independence of New Zealand (October 28, 1835)
- The Unanimous declaration of independence made by the delegates of the people of Texas (March 2, 1836)
- A Declaration of independence by the representatives of the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia (July 16, 1847)
- Declaration of independence of the Czechoslovak Nation (October 18, 1918)
- Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (September 2, 1945)
- Declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
- The Unilateral declaration of independence (Southern Rhodesia) (November 11, 1965).
Electronic Access:
System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.