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America, Amerikkka [electronic resource] : elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.

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London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-eBook Academic Collection - North America	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	viii, 291 p., 24 cm.
Series	Religion and violence
	eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction: the two faces of America: the ideal America as deception and as protest -- 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness -- 2. The rights of man and the excluded others: the revolutionary era and beyond -- 3. Manifest destiny and Anglo-Saxon racism: 1815-1875 -- 4. Manifest destiny and American empire: 1890-1934 -- 5. America's global mission: the Cold War era, 1945-89 -- 6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007 -- 7. Alternative visions of America: the protest tradition -- 8. Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go
Access	License restrictions may limit access.
Subject	Manifest Destiny.
	Imperialism -- History.
	Political messianism -- United States -- History.
	Religion and politics -- United States -- History.
	National characteristics, American.
	Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Protest movements -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Foreign relations.
	United States -- Territorial expansion.
	United States -- Politics and government.
	United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Added Author	eBook Academic Collection - North America
ISBN	1845531574 (hbk.)
	9781845531577 (hbk.)
	1845531582 (pbk.)
	9781845531584 (pbk.)
OCLC #	sseb_ssj0000463177

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