America, Amerikkka [electronic resource] : elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Material type: TextSeries: Religion and violencePublication details: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.Description: viii, 291 pSubject(s):- 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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- E183.7 .R895 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.
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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