Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876 /

The development, and costs, of the idea that God has a special plan for America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Nationalism > United States.
Providence and government of God.
Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Nationalisme > États-Unis.
Providence divine.
Nationalisme > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Diplomatic relations
Nationalism
Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity
Providence and government of God
United States > Church history.
United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain
United States
Church history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Britain, America, and the emergence of providential separatism
  • Providence and the problem of England in early America
  • "Openinge a doore" : 1600-1640
  • "A constant correspondence" : 1640-1660
  • "To rip up the womb of time" : 1660-1700
  • Conclusion: "magnalia dei"
  • "Empires are mortal" : the origins of providential separatism, 1756-1775
  • "This providential key" : providence and public affairs in Hanoverian Britain
  • "The indulgence of heaven" : national identity in the Seven Years' War
  • "A dream in the night" : the discontinuities of British history
  • "That awful goal" : imperial decline and the future of America
  • "Open paths" : the development of American providentialism
  • Conclusion: "people of different genius"
  • "Becoming a nation at once" : providentialism and the American Revolution
  • "The asylum of liberty and true religion" : patriot providentialism
  • "To deceive the elect" : the limits of providential appeal
  • "Pencillers of providence" : Britain and the meaning of the revolution
  • Conclusion: thanksgiving 1783/1784
  • Providence, race and the limits of revolution
  • "Our glorious example" : the limits of revolutionary providentialism
  • Providence, reform and revolution, 1786-1796
  • Confounded expectations : 1796-1808
  • "The illustrious hereafter" : 1808-1815
  • Conclusion: "citizens of the world"
  • "Deifying prejudice" : race and removal in the early republic
  • "The hand of heaven is in it" : the blueprint for Indian removal
  • "A divine impulse" : removing Blacks
  • "The obvious designs of Heaven" : providence and the politics of removal
  • Conclusion: "judgments are yet to be visited upon us"
  • "Divided destinies" : the providential meanings of American slavery
  • "The fulfillment of our mission" : expansion and its critics
  • Slavery and providence
  • "The key to American history" : slavery and the rationale for secession
  • Conclusion: "that great idea of national continuity"
  • "The regenerated nation" : the Civil War and the price of reunion
  • "What is to be the mission of this nation?" : God and the Confederacy
  • "We will retrieve our destiny" : slavery, war, and reunion
  • Conclusion: "the great deliverance"
  • William Lloyd Garrison's complaint
  • Providence and the new South
  • "The sacred significance of this war"
  • Conclusion: "centennial reflections."

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