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Barcode30053003809426
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No973.31 LARS
Title Declaring independence : why 1776 matters / Edward J. Larson.
Author Larson, Edward J. author. (Edward John),
CollectionNEW: Adult 900-999
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Personal Name Larson, Edward J. author. (Edward John),
Title Statement Declaring independence : why 1776 matters / Edward J. Larson.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice [New York, N.Y.] : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Physical Description 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence : Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, independence was on every patriot's lips. The many tyrannies of a king had made an independent republic necessary. In Declaring Independence, Edward J. Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal year. He traces a narrative arc that runs from the inspiring appeals of Paine's Common Sense in January ; through the soaring ideals of midsummer, when the Continental Congress grounded independence in the self-evident truths of human equality and individual rights, and the states wove revolutionary principles of republican government and the rule of law into their new constitutions ; to Paine's urgent pleas of December, when 'the times that try men's souls' required Americans not 'to shrink from the service of their country.' Dramatic military clashes also punctuate the year : the British evacuation of Boston forced by the brilliant maneuvers of Washington's Army ; the Battle of Long Island, a costly defeat that opened New York to British occupation ; and the desperate year-end victory of a threadbare American army at Trenton. Combined, these ideals and the sacrifices remind us why, on this anniversary and at this political moment, 1776 matters to all of us."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States. Declaration of Independence.
Subject United States. Continental Congress.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Politics and government 1775-1783.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.

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