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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778173203321

Autore

Horsman Reginald

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1981

ISBN

0-674-03877-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 pages)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Racism - United States

Racism - Great Britain

United States Territorial expansion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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