An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845 Founding Fictions develops the concept of a political fiction, or a narrative that people tell about their own political theories, and analyzes how republican and democratic fictions positioned American citizens as either romantic heroes, tragic victims, or ironic partisans. By re-telling the stories that Americans have told themselves about citizenship, Mercieca highlights an important contradiction in American political theory and practice: that national stability and active citizen participation are perceived as fundamentally at odds.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780817383558 ● 出版者 University of Alabama Press ● 发布时间 2010 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5000318 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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