Introduction -- The rise and influence of anti-Catholicism, 1834-1844 -- Religion, race, and Texas annexation -- Election, manifest destiny, and war -- Religion and recruitment -- Religion and wartime politics -- The America soldier in Mexico -- Protestant leaders and the war -- Bringing about the Republican millennium
Summary
The term 'manifest destiny' has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realise the degree to which manifest destiny and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2014)
