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Zusatztext John C. Pinheiro provides an elegant and concise overview of the growth of American anti-Catholicism in the 1830s and 1840s ...The most compelling consideration yet of the power of anti-Catholic discourse on the U.S. side of the conflict. Informationen zum Autor John C. Pinheiro is Associate Professor of History at Aquinas College. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 1: THE RISE AND INFLUENCE OF ANTI-CATHOLICISM, 1834-1844 ; CHAPTER 2: RELIGION, RACE, AND TEXAS ANNEXATION ; CHAPTER 3: ELECTION, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND WAR ; CHAPTER 4: RELIGION AND RECRUITMENT ; CHAPTER 5: RELIGION AND WARTIME POLITICS ; CHAPTER 6: THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN MEXICO ; CHAPTER 7: PROTESTANT LEADERS AND THE WAR ; CHAPTER 8: BRINGING ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN MILLENNIUM ; NOTES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
