The Star-Spangled Republic (eBook)

Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation

Eran Shalev (Autor)

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2025
264 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5386-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic, Eran Shalev answers this and many other questions, considering the cosmic imageryso familiar today but so peculiar on reflectionthat suffused the United States' early political culture. In this comprehensive study, Shalev uncovers how ';political astronomy'the discussion and representation of politics through astronomical models, allusions, and metaphorsreflected and facilitated the emerging worldview that enabled Americans to justify and find meaning in the country's new democratic modes of governance and its federal system. No other scholar has looked at American political rhetoric through this lens; in so doing, Shalev is able to explain in fascinating detail how Americans turned away from the sun of heliocentric monarchy toward the night sky full of federated constellations, and to discover republicanism imprinted in the firmament.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Jeffersonian America
• Zusatzinfo: 34 b&w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln • Antebellum • Astronomy • Benjamin Franklin • Bonnie Blue Flag • Celestial • Celestial Harmony • Civil War • Clockwork universe • Confederacy • confederate flag • constellation • constellation of luminaries • Constellations • Constitution • Cosmology • Cosmos • Cowpens flag • early republic • Federalism • Firmament • Flag • Galaxy • George Washington • Gravity • heavens • Independence • Jefferson Davis • light polloution • Lone Star Republic • Moon • Music of the Spheres • new American constellation • Newtonian physics • north star • Orbit • Orrery • Planets • political astronomy • Revolution • revolutionary money • Secession • sectionalism • Solar System • space • speheres of influence • Stardom • Stars • Stars and Bars • Star Spangled Banner • Stra • Sun • Sun King • Superstar • Vexillology
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5386-3 / 0813953863
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5386-1 / 9780813953861