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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty - The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors (Hardcover)
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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty - The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors (Hardcover)
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In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence,
formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately
began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to
proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic.
In this marvelous social and cultural history of the Continental
Congress, Benjamin H. Irvin describes this struggle to create a
national identity during the American Revolution. The book examines
the material artifacts, rituals, and festivities by which Congress
endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to
bolster the war effort, but ultimately to exalt the United States
and to win the allegiance of its inhabitants. Congress, for
example, crafted an emblematic great seal, celebrated anniversaries
of U.S. independence, and implemented august diplomatic protocols
for the reception of foreign ministers. Yet as Irvin demonstrates,
Congress could not impose its creations upon a passive American
public. To the contrary, "the people out of doors"-broadly defined
to include not only the working poor who rallied in the streets of
Philadelphia, but all persons unrepresented in the Continental
Congress, including women, loyalists, and Native
Americans-vigorously contested Congress's trappings of
nationhood.
Vividly narrating the progress of the Revolution in Philadelphia
and the lived experiences of its inhabitants during the tumultuous
war, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty sharpens our understanding of
the relationship between political elites and crowds of workaday
protestors as it illuminates the ways in which ideologies of
gender, class, and race shaped the civic identity of the
Revolutionary United States.
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