Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty

Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
Author: Benjamin H. Irvin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199314594

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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.