The Puritan origins of American patriotism

The Puritan origins of American patriotism /

In this absorbing 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 the American Puritan belief in a providential 'errand', has evolved over 350 ye...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKenna, George (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Patriotism > United States > History.
Puritans > United States > Doctrines > History.
Puritans > United States > History.
Reformed Church > United States > Doctrines > History.
Religion and politics > United States.
National characteristics, American.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > General.
Civilization > Philosophy
National characteristics, American
Patriotism
Puritans
Puritans > Doctrines
Reformed Church > Doctrines
Religion and politics
United States > History > Religious aspects > Christianity.
United States > Civilization > Philosophy.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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