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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Main Author: Nash, Gary B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Series:Icons of America.
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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. 
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852 |a Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b Pennsylvania Room  |h UPA/Ph F 158.8 .I3 N37 2010  |t 1