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The Declaration of Independence : a global history
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The Declaration of Independence : a global history

Author: David Armitage
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Looking at the American Declaration of Independence, this book reveals the document through the eyes of the rest of the world.
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Armitage, David, 1965-
Declaration of Independence.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007
(OCoLC)607843811
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Armitage
ISBN: 0674022823 9780674022829 9780674030329 067403032X
OCLC Number: 71173909
Description: vi, 300 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
The world in the Declaration of independence --
The Declaration of independence in the world --
A world of declarations --
Conclusion --
Declarations of independence, 1776-1993 --
Thomas Jefferson's "original rough draft" of the Declaration of independence --
In Congress, July 4, 1776 : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled --
Short review of the Declaration (1776) / Jeremy Bentham --
Manifesto of the Province of Flanders [extracts] (January 4, 1790) --
The Haitian Declaration of independence (January 1, 1804) --
The Venezuelan Declaration of independence (July 5, 1811) --
Declaration of the independence of New Zealand (October 28, 1835) --
The Unanimous declaration of independence made by the delegates of the people of Texas (March 2, 1836) --
A Declaration of independence by the representatives of the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia (July 16, 1847) --
Declaration of independence of the Czechoslovak Nation (October 18, 1918) --
Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (September 2, 1945) --
Declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948) --
The Unilateral declaration of independence (Southern Rhodesia) (November 11, 1965).
Responsibility: David Armitage.

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