Declaring Independence (eBook)

Why 1776 Matters

Edward J. Larson (Autor)

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2025
240 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-07898-2 (ISBN)

Infos

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, with the history of our founding a political battleground, this study of the ideas and battlefield sacrifices of 1776 by a Pulitzer Prizewinning scholar could not be more timely.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 patriots 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 Paines 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 Paines urgent pleas of December, when the times that try mens 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 Washingtons 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 8 pages of illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: America • battles • Boston • British colonies • Common sense • Constitution • declaration • Founding Fathers • George Washington • historian • History • John Adams • Jubilee • July 4 • Politics • Thomas Paine • us colonies • war
• ISBN-10: 1-324-07898-7 / 1324078987
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-07898-2 / 9781324078982