America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence /

America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.

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Main Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.
Series:Religion and violence.
Subjects:
Manifest Destiny.
Imperialism > History.
Political messianism > United States > History.
Religion and politics > United States > History.
National characteristics, American.
Racism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Protest movements > United States > History.
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the two faces of America: the ideal America as deception and as protest
  • 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness
  • 2. The rights of man and the excluded others: the revolutionary era and beyond
  • 3. Manifest destiny and Anglo-Saxon racism: 1815-1875
  • 4. Manifest destiny and American empire: 1890-1934
  • 5. America's global mission: the Cold War era, 1945-89
  • 6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007
  • 7. Alternative visions of America: the protest tradition
  • 8. Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go.

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