Clothed in robes of sovereignty [electronic resource] : the Continental Congress and the people out of doors / Benjamin H. Irvin.
2011
E303 .I79 2011eb
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Clothed in robes of sovereignty [electronic resource] : the Continental Congress and the people out of doors / Benjamin H. Irvin.
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9780199830404 (electronic bk.)
0199830401 (electronic bk.)
9780199731992
0199731993
0199830401 (electronic bk.)
9780199731992
0199731993
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 378 p.) : ill.
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E303 .I79 2011eb
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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."