Exceptionalism, Exclusion, and the American Revolution: Mathew Carey's Vindiciae Hibernicae and an Alternative Founding Narrative.
This article explores the symbolic use of the American revolution in Mathew Carey's Vindiciae Hibernicae , a revisionist history of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Carey, an Irish-born Philadelphia publisher, declared throughout Vindiciae Hibernicae that Irish Catholics had a legitimate reason to rebel...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Spring2025
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