A Dream of the Judgment Day
American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1620-1890
The United States has long thought of itself as exceptional--a nation destined to lead the world into a bright and glorious future. These ideas go back to the Puritan belief that Massachusetts would be a city on a hill, and in time that image came to define the United States and the American mentality. But what is at the root of these convictions? John Howard Smith's A Dream of the Judgment Day explores the origins of beliefs about the biblical end of the world as Americans have come to understand them, and how these beliefs led to a conception of the United States as an exceptional nation with a unique destiny to fulfill. However, these beli…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-753376-5
- EAN: 9780197533765
- Produktnummer: 35788594
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'703 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
John Howard Smith is Professor of History at Texas A&M University--Commerce and author of The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775.
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