Clothed in robes of sovereignty : the Continental Congress and the people out of doors / Benjamin H. Irvin.
2011
E303 .I79 2011 (Mapit)
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Clothed in robes of sovereignty : the Continental Congress and the people out of doors / Benjamin H. Irvin.
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ISBN
9780199731992 (alkaline paper)
0199731993 (alkaline paper)
0199731993 (alkaline paper)
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xii, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number
E303 .I79 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.3
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : to "stamp the character of the people"
The republicans' new clothes
The Continental Congress unmanned
"[A]n impression upon the mind"
The pride and pomp of war
"The spirits of the whigs must be kept up"
"[U]ncommon and extraordinary movements"
"[T]he most amiable garbs of publick virtue"
Naked and unadorned
Conclusion : "[T]he sign of the thirteen starrs."
The republicans' new clothes
The Continental Congress unmanned
"[A]n impression upon the mind"
The pride and pomp of war
"The spirits of the whigs must be kept up"
"[U]ncommon and extraordinary movements"
"[T]he most amiable garbs of publick virtue"
Naked and unadorned
Conclusion : "[T]he sign of the thirteen starrs."