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Author:

McCullough, Matthew, author.

Title:

The cross of war : Christian nationalism and U.S. expansion in the Spanish-American War / Matthew McCullough.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Spanish-American War, 1898--Christianity.--Christianity.
Intervention (International law)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Civil religion--United States--History--19th century.
Religion and international relations.
United States--Foreign relations--19th century.
Spanish-American War, 1898--Influence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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.

Series:

Studies in American thought and culture.

ISBN:

029930034X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299300340 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862575278

LCCN:

2013042701

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)