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The Star-Spangled Republic
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The Star-Spangled Republic : Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0813953855
ISBN-13 9780813953854
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 24th, 2025
Print length 258 Pages
Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.50 cms
Ksh 3,800.00
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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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