The Liberty Bell
A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash's book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania's Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that...
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2010.
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Series: | Icons of America.
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100 | 1 | |a Nash, Gary B. | |
245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Liberty Bell |c Gary B. Nash |
260 | |a New Haven [Conn.] : |b Yale University Press, |c c2010. | ||
300 | |a xiii, 242 p. : |b ill. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
490 | 1 | |a Icons of America | |
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Beginnings -- The bell becomes an icon -- On the road with the bell -- The Liberty Bell in war and peace -- Everyone's Liberty Bell. | |
520 | |a A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash's book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania's Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that provided the bell's inscription and the valiant efforts of Philadelphia's unheralded brass founders who attempted to recast the bell after it cracked upon delivery from London's venerable Whitechapel Foundry. --from publisher description | ||
541 | 0 | |c Gift; |a PMHB; |d 2011. | |
651 | 0 | |a Liberty Bell. | |
651 | 0 | |a Philadelphia (Pa.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. | |
830 | 0 | |a Icons of America. | |
852 | |a Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Pennsylvania Room |h UPA/Ph F 158.8 .I3 N37 2010 |t 1 |