Inventing the People

The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty—the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"—has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

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Utgivningsdatum:1989-09-17
Mått:135 x 196 x 23 mm
Vikt:351 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393306231
Utmärkelser:Winner of Bancroft Prize 1989

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Edmund S. Morgan (1916–2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy’s Gold Medal. He was the author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many other books.

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"[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty."