Description: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Nicholas Guyatt Format: Hardback Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9780521867887, 978-0521867887 Synopsis 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 purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.
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Book Title: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: History
Item Height: 240 mm
Item Weight: 618 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Nicholas Guyatt
Item Width: 160 mm
Format: Hardcover
