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Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876 / Nicholas Guyatt.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Nationalism--United States.
- Nationalism.
- Providence and government of God.
- Nationalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- International relations.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 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".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521867887
- 0521867886
- 9780521687300
- 0521687306
- OCLC:
- 80180218
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