Race and manifest destiny : the origins of American racial anglo-saxonism /

Race and manifest destiny : the origins of American racial anglo-saxonism / Reginald Horsman.

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. This book examines the origins of racialism in America to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850. The author chronicles the beginnings and growt...

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Main Author: Horsman, Reginald.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
Subjects:
Manifest Destiny.
Racism > United States.
Racism > Great Britain.
Racism.
United States > Territorial expansion.
Table of Contents:
  • I. EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS. Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons
  • Aryans follow the sun
  • Science and inequality
  • Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England
  • II. AMERICAN DESTINY. Providential nation
  • The other Americans
  • Superior and inferior races
  • The dissemination of scientific racialism
  • Romantic racial nationalism
  • III. AN ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY. Racial destiny and the Indians
  • Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans
  • Race, expansion, and the Mexican War
  • A confused minority
  • Expansion and world mission.

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