Race and Manifest Destiny The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism

Name: Race and Manifest Destiny The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
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ISBN: 9780674948051

ISBN-10: 067494805X

ISBN-13: 9780674948051

Edition: 1981

Authors: Reginald Horsman

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American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. 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. The author deftly chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes in the blood. He traces how this ideology shifted from the more benign views of the Founding Fathers, which embraced ideas of progress and the spread of republican institutions for all. He finds linkages between the new, racialist ideology in America and the rising European ideas of Anglo-Saxon,…

Book details

Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction



European and Colonial Origins



Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons



Aryans Follow the Sun



Science and Inequality



Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England



American Destiny



Providential Nation



The Other Americans



Superior and Inferior Races



The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism



Romantic Racial Nationalism



An Anglo-Saxon Political Ideology



Racial Destiny and the Indians



Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans



Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War



A Confused Minority



Expansion and World Mission Conclusion


Notes


Index