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Race and Manifest Destiny

The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
  • Reginald Horsman
Language: 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

The most lucidly written, comprehensive portrayal of antebellum racial thought to date.
-- 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

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


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I EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ORIGINS

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