Alexander Tsesis

For Liberty and Equality

The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For Liberty and Equality shows how the Declaration of Independence actually worked in each era, and why its influence has been crucial to the development of the American nation and way of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780199325269
• ISBN-10: 019932526X
• Artikelnr.: 39866984

Autorenporträt

Alexander Tsesis is Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University-Chicago. He is the author of We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law; The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom; and Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I: Preface
Chapter II: Becoming Independent
Chapter III: The Nation's Infancy
Chapter IV: Youthful Republic
Chapter V. Compromising for the Sake of Expansion
Chapter VI. Jacksonian Era Democracy
Chapter VII. Subordination
Chapter VIII: The Unraveling Bonds of Union
Chapter IX: Sectional Cataclysm
Chapter X: Reconstruction
Chapter XI: Gilded Populism
Chapter XII: Inconsistent Progress
Chapter XIII: The Declaration in a New Deal State
Chapter XIV: Independence Principles in the Civil Rights Era
Chapter XV: Epilogue
Appendix: The Declaration of Independence