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

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Guyatt, Nicholas

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Cambridge University Press

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2007

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English

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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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Subjects

Aspect religieux
Christianisme
Christianity
Church history
Diplomatic relations
États-Unis -- Histoire religieuse
États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Grande-Bretagne
Foreign relations
General
Great Britain
Histoire religieuse
HISTORY
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
Nationalism
Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Nationalism -- United States
Nationalisme
Nationalisme -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme
Nationalisme -- États-Unis
Providence and government of God
Providence divine
Relations extérieures
Religious aspects
State & Local
United States
United States -- Church history
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain

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9780521687300
9780521867887
9780511351044
9781107179189
9780511350146
9780511619137
9780511573477
9781281086211
9786611086213
9780511348310
9780511349287

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