The Puritan origins of American patriotism / George McKenna
- Bib ID:
- 4218672
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- Author:
- McKenna, George
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007
- xiv, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780300100990
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- 030010099X
- Summary:
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"In this 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 American Puritan belief in a providential "errand" - has evolved over 250 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Reformed Church -- United States -- Doctrines -- History
- Patriotism -- United States -- History
- Puritans -- United States -- Doctrines -- History
- Puritans -- United States -- History
- Religion and politics -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- United States -- History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy
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