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Race and manifest destiny : the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism /

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850. The aut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horsman, Reginald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1981].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS
  • 1. Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons
  • 2. Aryans Follow the Sun
  • 3. Science and Inequality
  • 4. Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England
  • II AMERICAN DESTINY
  • 5. Providential Nation
  • 6. The Other Americans
  • 7. Superior and Inferior Races
  • 8. The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism
  • 9. Romantic Racial Nationalism
  • III AN ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
  • 10. Racial Destiny and the Indians
  • 11. Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans
  • 12. Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War
  • 13. A Confused Minority
  • 14. Expansion and World Mission