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Subject(s)

• Manifest Destiny [Browse]
• Imperialism—History [Browse]
• Political messianism—United States—History [Browse]
• Religion and politics—United States—History [Browse]
• National characteristics, American [Browse]
• Racism—Political aspects—United States—History [Browse]
• Protest movements—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations [Browse]
• United States—Territorial expansion [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—Political aspects [Browse]

Series

Religion and violence. [More in this series]

Summary note

America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a ""promised land"" and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread ""redemption"" qua ""democracy"" throughout the world. This view of unique election has been coupled racial exclusivism privileging and marginalizing non-whites as citizens of the nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries a doctrine of the ""rights of man"" excluded the two primary non-white groups present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans. Manifest Destiny

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction: the two faces of America: the ideal America as deception and as protest
• 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness
• 2. The rights of man and the excluded others: the revolutionary era and beyond
• 3. Manifest destiny and Anglo-Saxon racism: 1815-1875
• 4. Manifest destiny and American empire: 1890-1934
• 5. America's global mission: the Cold War era, 1945-89
• 6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007
• 7. Alternative visions of America: the protest tradition
• 8. Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go.

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ISBN

• 1-315-71120-6
• 1-317-49124-6

OCLC

• 647929491
• 1187184326

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