Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876 /Nicholas Guyatt.

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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 -- Prophecy, history and national providentialism -- Virginia : "weak and feeble crutches" -- New England : "the houre for the worke" -- "A constant correspondence" : 1640-1660 -- The uses of England in America -- The uses of America in England -- "To rip up the womb of time" : 1660-1700 -- "Confused times" : English providentialism after the restoration -- "A little nation" : New England and historical providentialism -- 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 -- "A new asylum" : patriot providentialism -- "To deceive the elect" : the limits of providential appeal -- Constituencies -- Opponents -- "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 -- The constitution : "the object of divine patronage" -- France : "a season of universal freedom" -- 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 -- "A traditionary freedom will not save us" : antislavery arguments -- "The badges of a fallen world" : pro-slavery arguments -- "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 -- "To retrieve our destiny" : slavery, war and reunion -- "A glorious career of self-regeneration" -- Colonization, Lincoln and "the will of providence" -- Conclusion: "the great deliverance" -- William Lloyd Garrison's complaint -- Providence and the new South -- "The sacred significance of this war" -- Conclusion: "centennial reflections". ix, 341 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Guyatt, Nicholas

Place Published

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Cambridge, UK ;New York

Date Published

2007

Publication Subjects

Nationalism--United States. Providence and government of God. Nationalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Call No.

BR515 .G89 2007

ISBN

9780521867887 (hardback), 9780521687300 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007001746

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.