| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Founding fictions/ Jennifer R. Mercieca. |
| Author: |
Mercieca, Jennifer R. |
| Published: |
Tuscaloosa :University of Alabama Press, : c2010., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 274 p.). |
| [NT 15003449]: |
"Republicanism was an indefinite term" : political fictions as critical tools for citizenship-- "The Revolution was in the minds of the people" : citizens as romantic heroes, 1764-1776 -- "TheAmerican Constitution is that little article of HOPE, left at the bottom of Pandora's box of evils": citizens as tragic victims, 1783-1789 -- "Who would not have been willing to have died such a death?" : citizens as reified patriot heroes, July 4, 1826 -- "I will not look up to the weather-cock ofpopularity, to see which way the gale is blowing" : citizens as ironicpartisans, 1816-1845. |
| Subject: |
Democracy - History. - United States - |
| Subject: |
United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817383558/Full text available: |
| ISBN: |
9780817383558 (electronic bk.) |