Description: Toward a More Perfect Union : Virtue and the Formation of American Republics, Hardcover by Withington, Ann Fairfax, ISBN 0195068351, ISBN-13 9780195068351, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Toward Amore Perfect Union : Virtue and the Formation of American Republics
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 1991
Subject: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General
Item Weight: 17.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Ann Fairfax Withington
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
