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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#229079
Titel	Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Auteur	Guyatt, Nicholas
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0521687306
ISBN13	9780521687300
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious nationalism before the American Revolution and the extraordinary struggles of white Americans to reconcile their ideas of national mission with the racial diversity of the early republic. Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, Providence and the Invention of the United States explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America. This conviction supplied the United States with a powerful sense of national ... (Lees verder)purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.
Pagina's	341
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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