Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

Name: Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
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ISBN: 9780300100990

ISBN-10: 030010099X

ISBN-13: 9780300100990

Edition: 2007

Authors: George McKenna

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In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism--shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential "errand"--has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways, McKenna shows. The germ of the patriotism, an activist theology that stressed collective rather than individual salvation, began in the late 1630s in New England and traveled across the continent, eventually becoming a national phenomenon. Today, American patriotism still reflects its origins in the seventeenth century. By…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English




The Puritan narrative



Revolutionary Puritanism



Romantic Puritanism



The holy war



Puritans in the Gilded Age



Puritanism debunked and revived



America blessed and judged : the fifties and sixties



Intermezzo



America after 9/11