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Author: Danielle Allen Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0871408139 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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“A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
Author: Danielle Allen Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0871408139 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
“A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
Author: Gary Mayerson Publisher: ISBN: 9780991040346 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Author: Chandar Sundaram Publisher: ISBN: 9781910777336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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On 20 August 1917, the British government declared that its Indian subjects were to be granted greater participation in India's self-government. But there was another declaration that day, which removed the bar that then existed on Indians being admitted into the hitherto wholly British higher officer corps of the Indian Army, thus inaugurating its Indianization. In this book, Chandar Sundaram sheds new and important light on the story of the Indianization of the Indian Army's officer corps, by detailing its origins, from when it first appeared as an idea, to its acceptance, if only theoretically, by officials in London and New Delhi a hundred years later, in 1917. Sundaram breaks new ground by carefully treating the evolution of the Indianization idea in the 19th century, the various schemes it generated, and the reasons why they were not accepted. The Imperial Cadet Corps, which was the first Indianization scheme to be implemented, is then comprehensively analyzed, as is the main reason for its failure. The commissions that were granted through the corps to Indian princes and gentlemen did not entitle them to command troops. Sundaram then shows how the corps' failure renewed the Indianization debate. This, in conjunction with India's enormous 1.3 million man contribution to the Allied effort in the First World War, led to the final acceptance of the principle of Indianization. Finally, Sundaram shows how features of the pre-1917 debate, such as such as racism, 'social difficulties', experimentalism, aristocratism, the 'martial races' ideology, and other forms of foot-dragging, fundamentally influenced the playing out of post-1917 Indianization policy. Only the exigencies of a second world war finally forced Britain's hand. Rigorously and painstakingly researched from archival sources in the UK and India, and written in a direct, jargon-free and engaging narrative style, this book is a defining contribution to the history of the colonial Indian Army, and will be of interest to historians of the British Empire, Colonial South Asia, and war and society, as well as to the general reader of military history.
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