Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 544 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814791077
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9780814791073
Content:
Winner of the 2010 Book Award from the New England Historical Association. American constitutionalism represents this country's greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different peoples in different lands at different times. American constitutionalism and the revolutionary republican documents on which it is based affected countless countries by helping them develop their own constitutional democracies. Western constitutionalism-of which America was a part along with Britain and France-reac
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART I: Definitions; 1 Of Constitutions and Constitutionalisms; 2 American Constitutionalism Defined: Six Seminal Documents; PART II: Seven Echoes of American Constitutionalism: A Global Perspective; 3 First Echo: Europe, 1776-1800; 4 Second Echo: Latin America, 1811-1900; 5 European Interlude, 1800-1848; 6 Third Echo: European Revolutions of 1848; 7 European Interlude, 1850-1900 and the American Civil War; 8 Fourth Echo: American Empire; 9 Fifth Echo: World War I to World War II, 1919-1945; 10 Sixth Echo: American Crescendo, 1945-1974
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11 Seventh Echo: American Constitutionalism and Democratization, 1974-198912 Global Consciousness, Then and Now; Appendix: A Note on the Historiography of the Influence of American Constitutionalism Abroad: 1776-1989; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814791073
Additional Edition:
Print version American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989 : A Global Perspective
Language:
English
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