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John Howard Smith

A Dream of the Judgment Day

American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1620-1890

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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… Mehr

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  • 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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