Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "My brother's keeper" : justifying a new kind of sacrifice, defining a new kind of war
  • Clash of civilizations : Spain as enemy and the crystallization of American messianism
  • "The hand of God in the nation's victory" : providence, American success, and the meaning of national history
  • To Anglo-Saxonize the world : racial providentialism and the American mission
  • Duty and destiny : messianic interventionism and the ideology of American expansion.