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American constitutionalism heard round the world, 1776-1989 : a global perspective /
Winner of the 2010 Book Award from the New England Historical AssociationAmerican constitutionalism represents this country's greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different peoples in dif...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Of constitutions and constitutionalisms
- American constitutionalism defined : six seminal documents
- Seven echoes of American constitutionalism : a global perspective
- First echo : Europe, 1776-1800
- Second echo : Latin America, 1811-1900
- European interlude : 1800-1848
- Third echo : European revolutions of 1848
- European interlude, 1850-1900 and the American Civil War
- Fourth echo : American empire
- Fifth echo : World War I to World War II, 1919-1945
- Sixth echo : American crescendo, 1945-1974
- Seventh echo : American constitutionalism and democratization, 1974-1989
- Global consciousness, then and now.