Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876

Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Author: Nicholas Guyatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2007-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521867887

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.

The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York

The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York
Author: Dixon Ryan Fox
Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1919
Genre: History
ISBN:

Attempts to penetrate beneath the laws and party platforms to provide explanations of the decline of the aristocracy in New York during the first half of the 18th century. Begins in 1801 and looks at issues affecting the city of New York and its countryside.

ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE W

ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE W
Author: Robert 1787-1841 Sedgwick
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2016-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781371200718

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