Author: Aaron Venable BrownPublisher:
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Speeches, Congressional and Political
Author: Aaron Venable BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Speech of Mr. J.J. Hardin, of Illinois
Author: John J. HardinThe Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Missionaries of Republicanism
Author: John C. PinheiroPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199948682
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. When the overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this "Beecherite Synthesis" provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted an integral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers to interpret Mexico's culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics. Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on Manifest Destiny, American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Our Living Representative Men
Author: John SavagePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Speech ... reviewing the principles of J. K. Polk and the leaders of modern democracy. Delivered in the House of Representatives, etc
Author: John J. HARDINA dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752510161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Speeches on various occasions
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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