America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.
Series:	Religion and violence.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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