Description: Toward a More Perfect Union : Virtue and the Formation of American Republics, Paperback by Withington, Ann Fairfax, ISBN 0195101308, ISBN-13 9780195101300, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK In October of 1774, Congress passed a moral code which banned the theater, cock-fights, and horse races. In abiding by this code, Americans built for themselves a character as a virtuous people which set them apart from the "corrupt" British, prepared them to declare independence, and gave them the confidence to establish republican governments. This book uses the specific moral code of Congress as a springboard into the issues generated by the constitutional crisis that precipitated the American Revolution. Withington argues that the moral program, grounded in popular culture, worked as a political strategy to involve people emotionally in the cause and to broaden the reach of resistance to include all classes and both genders. Withington's integration of political history with the materials of popular culture, including cocker manuals, mortuary paraphernalia, prints, caricatures, anagrams, bawdy comedies and sentimental tragedies, and last speeches of condemned criminals leads the reader into a deeper understanding of the formation and significance of the revolutionary ideology
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Book Title: Toward a More Perfect Union : Virtue and the Formation of America
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Width: 140 mm
Author: Ann Fairfax Withington
Publication Name: Toward a more Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Government, History
Publication Year: 1996
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 390 g
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
