num_pages: 352
description: Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? 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. The benefits and costs of this idea deserve careful consideration.
language: English
title: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876
publisher: Cambridge University Press