Toward a More Perfect Union
Virtue and the Formation of American Republics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 1992
- ISBN 9780195068351
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 218x148x27 mm
- Weight 435 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 pp halftones 0
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On the way toward declaring independence, Americans saw themselves as a separate people in the process of birth. In 1774, the First Continental Congress drew up a highly specific code of behaviour banning cock-fighting, horse-racing , and theatre. Public executions took the place of drama, and strict regulations were placed on funerals . Withington argues that Congress banned these activities because they were viewed as posing a threat to the values needed in order to make resistance to Britain successful.
The book is a brilliant example of cultural history, using activities like gambling and theatre to illuminate the popular attitudes and government policy that contributed to the move toward Independence.
A convincing account, writen with unusual wit and style, of the manner in which colonial American self-righteousness and self-denials contributed to a change of sensibility that prepared the way for Independence.
