The Declaration of Independence
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The Declaration of Independence

A Global History

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The Declaration of Independence

A Global History

About this book

In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow.

Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework. He shows how the Declaration arose within a global moment in the late eighteenth century similar to our own. He uses over one hundred declarations of independence written since 1776 to show the influence and role the U.S. Declaration has played in creating a world of states out of a world of empires. He discusses why the framers' language of natural rights did not resonate in Britain, how the document was interpreted in the rest of the world, whether the Declaration established a new nation or a collection of states, and where and how the Declaration has had an overt influence on independence movements—from Haiti to Vietnam, and from Venezuela to Rhodesia.

Included is the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and sample declarations from around the world. An eye-opening list of declarations of independence since 1776 is compiled here for the first time. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. The World in the Declaration of Independence
  4. 2. The Declaration of Independence in the World
  5. 3. A World of Declarations
  6. Conclusion
  7. Declarations of Independence, 1776–1993
  8. Thomas Jefferson’s “Original Rough Draft” of the Declaration of Independence
  9. In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration By the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
  10. [Jeremy Bentham,] Short Review of theDeclaration (1776)
  11. Manifesto of the Province of Flanders [extracts] (January 4, 1790)
  12. The Haitian Declaration of Independence (January 1, 1804)
  13. The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (July 5, 1811)
  14. Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (October 28, 1835)
  15. The Unanimous Declaration of Independencemade by the Delegates of the People of Texas (March 2,1836)
  16. A Declaration of Independence by the Representatives of the People of the Commonwealth of Liberia (July 16, 1847)
  17. Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation (October 18, 1918)
  18. Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (September 2, 1945)
  19. Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
  20. The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Southern Rhodesia); (November 11, 1965)
  21. Notes
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index