Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876
By: Nicholas Guyatt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521867887; 9780521687300
Subjects: Nationalism -- United States; Providence and government of God; Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; United States -- Church history; United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Britain, America and the emergence of providential separatism; title: Providence and the problem of England in early America; title: "Openinge a doore" : 1600-1640; title: Prophecy, history and national providentialism; title: Virginia : "weak and feeble crutches"; title: New England : "the houre for the worke"; title: "A constant correspondence" : 1640-1660; title: The uses of England in America; title: The uses of America in England; title: "To rip up the womb of time" : 1660-1700; title: "Confused times" : English providentialism after the restoration; title: "A little nation" : New England and historical providentialism; title: Conclusion: "magnalia dei"; title: "Empires are mortal" : the origins of providential separatism, 1756-1775; title: "This providential key" : providence and public affairs in hanoverian britain; title: "The indulgence of heaven :" national identity in the seven years' war; title: "A dream in the night" : the discontinuities of British history; title: "That awful goal" : imperial decline and the future of America; title: "Open paths" : the development of American providentialism; title: Conclusion: "people of different genius"; title: "Becoming a nation at once" : providentialism and the American Revolution; title: "A new asylum" : patriot providentialism; title: "To deceive the elect" : the limits of providential appeal; title: Constituencies; title: Opponents; title: "Pencillers of providence" : Britain and the meaning of the revolution; title: Conclusion: thanksgiving 1783-1784; title: Providence, race and the limits of revolution; title: "Our glorious example" : the limits of revolutionary providentialism; title: Providence, reform and revolution, 1786-1796; title: The constitution : "the object of divine patronage"; title: France : "a season of universal freedom"; title: Confounded expectations, 1796-1808; title: "The illustrious hereafter" : 1808-1815; title: Conclusion: "citizens of the world"; title: "Deifying prejudice" : race and removal in the early republic; title: "The hand of heaven is in it" : the blueprint for Indian removal; title: "A divine impulse" : removing Blacks; title: "The obvious designs of heaven" : providence and the politics of removal; title: Conclusion: "judgments are yet to be visited upon us"; title: "Divided destinies" : the providential meanings of American slavery; title: "The fulfillment of our mission :" expansion and its critics; title: Slavery and providence; title: "A traditionary freedom will not save us" : antislavery arguments; title: "The badges of a fallen world" : pro-slavery arguments; title: "The key to American history" : slavery and the rationale for secession; title: Conclusion: "that great idea of national continuity"; title: "The regenerated nation" : the Civil War and the price of reunion; title: "What is to be the mission of this nation?" : God and the confederacy; title: "To retrieve our destiny" : slavery, war and reunion; title: "A glorious career of self-regeneration"; title: Colonization, Lincoln and "the will of providence"; title: Conclusion: "the great deliverance"; title: William Lloyd Garrison's complaint; title: Providence and the new South; title: "The sacred significance of this war"; title: Conclusion: "centennial reflections".