TY - BOOK N2 - A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash's book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania's Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that provided the bell's inscription and the valiant efforts of Philadelphia's unheralded brass founders who attempted to recast the bell after it cracked upon delivery from London's venerable Whitechapel Foundry. --from publisher description AB - A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash's book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania's Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that provided the bell's inscription and the valiant efforts of Philadelphia's unheralded brass founders who attempted to recast the bell after it cracked upon delivery from London's venerable Whitechapel Foundry. --from publisher description T1 - The Liberty Bell / DA - c2010. CY - New Haven [Conn.] : AU - Nash, Gary B. CN - F158.8.I3 CN - F158.8.I3 PB - Yale University Press, PP - New Haven [Conn.] : PY - c2010. ID - 351704 KW - Liberty Bell. SN - 9780300139365 (alk. paper) SN - 0300139365 (alk. paper) SN - 9780300171426 (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 0300171420 (pbk. : alk. paper) TI - The Liberty Bell / ER -