Rhetoric, independence, and nationhood, 1760-1800 / edited by Stephen E. Lucas.
"Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, during which the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, won their independence on the battlefield, created the United St...
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Rhetorical history of the United States ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rhetoric, independence, and nationhood, 1760-1800 / Stephen E. Lucas
- The child independence is born : James Otis and writs of assistance / James M. Farrell
- Spectacular words : the Boston Massacre orations, standing armies, and the transformation of civic Identity / Stephen Howard Browne
- Religion, rhetoric, and revolution : the preaching of New England's Whig clergy / Christopher Grasso
- The commonalities of Common sense / Robert A. Ferguson
- Justifying America : the rhetorical artistry of the Declaration of Independence / Stephen E. Lucas
- Loyalist discourse and the moderation of the American Revolution / Timothy M. Barnes and Robert M. Calhoon
- The confounded rhetorics of race in revolutionary America / Stephen John Hartnett and Michael W. Pfau
- Revolutionary sensibility : the civic rhetoric of American women, 1760-1800 / Sandra M. Gustafson
- The rhetoric of The federalist : on the symbolic economy of power in the United States / Jeremy Engels
- Alexander Hamilton's national blessing : a rhetorical study of the Report on public credit / John M. Murphy
- Naming Americans : Benjamin Rush and the invention of citizenship in the early republic / Greg Goodale.