Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation (Jeffersonian America) - Hardcover

Shalev, Eran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813953847 ISBN 13: 9780813953847

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic, Eran Shalev answers this and many other questions, considering the cosmic imagery--so familiar today but so peculiar on reflection--that suffused the United States' early political culture. In this comprehensive study, Shalev uncovers how "political astronomy"--the discussion and representation of politics through astronomical models, allusions, and metaphors--reflected and facilitated the emerging worldview that enabled Americans to justify and find meaning in the country's new democratic modes of governance and its federal system. No other scholar has looked at American political rhetoric through this lens; in so doing, Shalev is able to explain in fascinating detail how Americans turned away from the sun of heliocentric monarchy toward the night sky full of federated constellations, and to discover republicanism imprinted in the firmament.

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Eran Shalev is Professor of History at Haifa University and the author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (2009), and American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813953847
• ISBN 13: 9780813953847
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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