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Article: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2008
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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876, by Nicholas Guyatt. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix. 341 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper).
The notion that the United States and its colonial predecessors possessed a divinely ordained destiny has long been a familiar, albeit largely unexamined, theme in American history. Many historians are familiar, at least in passing, with the fact that clergy and politicians promoted the belief that a special relationship existed between the Almighty and the United States. However, there have been few studies--at least academic ones--that have attempted to examine this idea in depth. In ...