"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.
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