Author:
McCullough, Matthew, author.
Imprint:Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
Descriptionxiii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
Note:"My brother's keeper" : justifying a new kind of sacrifice, defining a new kind of war -- Clash of civilizations : Spain as enemy and the crystallization of American messianism -- "The hand of God in the nation's victory" : providence, American success, and the meaning of national history -- To Anglo-Saxonize the world : racial providentialism and the American mission -- Duty and destiny : messianic interventionism and the ideology of American expansion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
