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- English
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About this book
America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America's sense of itself. In its examination of America's "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction The Two Faces of America: The Ideal America as Deception and as Protest
- Chapter One Elect Nations of Europe and the Making of the American Myth of Chosenness
- Chapter Two The Rights of Man and the Excluded Others — The Revolutionary Era and Beyond
- Chapter Three Manifest Destiny and Anglo-Saxon Racism — 1815-1875
- Chapter Four Manifest Destiny and American Empire: 1890-1934
- Chapter Five America's Global Mission: The Cold War Era, 1945-89
- Chapter Six American Empire and its Denouement: 1990-2007
- Chapter Seven Alternative Visions of America: The Protest Tradition
- Chapter Eight Toward a U.S. Theology of Liberation and Letting Go
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical References
- General Index