Ch. 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness -- ch. 2. The rights of man and the excluded others : the revolutionary era and beyond -- 3. ch. 3. Manifest destiny and Anglo-Saxon racism : 1815-1875 -- ch. 4. Manifest destiny and American empire : 1890-1934 -- ch. 5. America's global mission : the Cold War era, 1945-89 -- ch. 6. American empire and its denouement : 1990-2007 -- ch. 7. Alternative visions of America : the protest tradition -- ch. 8. Toward a U.S. theology of liberation and letting go
Notes
Originally published 2007 by Equinox Publishing Ltd, an imprint of Acumen
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-282) and indexes
