Individual creativity and the filters of language and culture: Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by translation

Journal of American History

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1289-1298

  Thelen, David ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749826745     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2568253     Document Type: Article

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13. Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (New York, 1997), 197-99.
14. For twenty-two "alternative" declarations of independence in which Americans used the declarations language of rights to express their claims, see Philip S. Foner, ed., We the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence by Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman's Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975 (Urbana, 1976).
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17. Willi Paul Adams, "German Translations of the American Declaration of Independence," Journal of American History, ibid., 1342.
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19. Li, "East Is East and West Is West: Did the Twain Ever Meet?," 1437;
20. Elise Marienstras and Naomi Wulf, "French Translations and Reception of the Declaration of Independence," Journal of American History, 85 (March 1999), 1311.
21. Adams, "Amerikanische Verfassungdiskussion in deutscher Sprache," 18;
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23. Aruga, "Declaration of Independence in Japan," 1411;
24. Marienstras and Wulf, "French Translations and Reception of the Declaration of Independence," 1309.
25. Marienstras and Wulf, "French Translations and Reception of the Declaration of Independence," 1314;
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27. Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov, "The Declaration of Independence: A View from Russia," Journal of American History, ibid., 1396-97.
28. Tiziano Bonazzi, "Tradurre/Tradire: The Declaration of Independence in the Italian Context," Journal of American History, ibid., 1355-56;
29. Aruga, "Declaration of Independence in Japan," 1412-13, 1427.
30. Aruga, "Declaration of Independence in Japan," 1415-16.