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Race and Manifest Destiny
The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
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Reginald Horsman
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English
Published/Copyright:
1981
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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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A work of monumental scope. [Horsman] has permanently changed the accepted scholarly understanding of racial Anglo-Saxonism.
-- Reviews in American History
-- Reviews in American History
The most lucidly written, comprehensive portrayal of antebellum racial thought to date.
-- The Yale Review
-- The Yale Review
The book offers an insightful perspective stressing the unity of racist thought… Well written and organized, Race and Manifest Destiny confronts an important subject in western history, yet never loses sight of the broader themes of the American past.
-- Western Historical Quarterly
-- Western Historical Quarterly
A well-documented, in-depth study of antebellum racial thought which challenges the older view of historians that racial Anglo-Saxonism was not intellectually ascendant in American thought before the Civil War… A very important contribution.
-- Indiana Magazine of History
-- Indiana Magazine of History
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS
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1 Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons
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2 Aryans Follow the Sun
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3 Science and Inequality
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4 Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England
62 - II AMERICAN DESTINY
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5 Providential Nation
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6 The Other Americans
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7 Superior and Inferior Races
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8 The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism
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9 Romantic Racial Nationalism
158 - III AN ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
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10 Racial Destiny and the Indians
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11 Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans
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12 Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War
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13 A Confused Minority
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14 Expansion and World Mission
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Index
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