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Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics
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by Ann Fairfax Withington


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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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A wonderful book, exploiting materials and problems rarely considered in the same frame as the the origins of the revolution. An exuberant romp through known and unknown corridors of eighteenth-century culture and politics, this book will entertain and challenge all historians of revolutionary America.'

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  • Title Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics
  • Author Ann Fairfax Withington
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY
  • Date 1996-09-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195101300 / 0195101308
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.53 x 0.93 in (20.98 x 14.05 x 2.36 cm)
  • Reading level 1390
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91008317
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.3
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