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Race and Manifest Destiny : The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981Copyright date: ©1981Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (380 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race and Manifest DestinyDDC classification:
  • 305.8/00973
LOC classification:
  • E179
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS -- 1 Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons -- 2 Aryans Follow the Sun -- 3 Science and Inequality -- 4 Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England -- II AMERICAN DESTINY -- 5 Providential Nation -- 6 The Other Americans -- 7 Superior and Inferior Races -- 8 The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism -- 9 Romantic Racial Nationalism -- III AN ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY -- 10 Racial Destiny and the Indians -- 11 Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans -- 12 Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War -- 13 A Confused Minority -- 14 Expansion and World Mission -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Reginald Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS -- 1 Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons -- 2 Aryans Follow the Sun -- 3 Science and Inequality -- 4 Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England -- II AMERICAN DESTINY -- 5 Providential Nation -- 6 The Other Americans -- 7 Superior and Inferior Races -- 8 The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism -- 9 Romantic Racial Nationalism -- III AN ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY -- 10 Racial Destiny and the Indians -- 11 Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans -- 12 Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War -- 13 A Confused Minority -- 14 Expansion and World Mission -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Reginald Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850.

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