Britain, America, and the emergence of providential separatism
Providence and the problem of England in early America
"Openinge a doore" : 1600-1640
"A constant correspondence" : 1640-1660
"To rip up the womb of time" : 1660-1700
Conclusion: "magnalia dei"
"Empires are mortal" : the origins of providential separatism, 1756-1775
"This providential key" : providence and public affairs in Hanoverian Britain
"The indulgence of heaven" : national identity in the Seven Years' War
"A dream in the night" : the discontinuities of British history
"That awful goal" : imperial decline and the future of America
"Open paths" : the development of American providentialism
Conclusion: "people of different genius"
"Becoming a nation at once" : providentialism and the American Revolution
"The asylum of liberty and true religion" : patriot providentialism
"To deceive the elect" : the limits of providential appeal
"Pencillers of providence" : Britain and the meaning of the revolution
Conclusion: thanksgiving 1783/1784
Providence, race and the limits of revolution
"Our glorious example" : the limits of revolutionary providentialism
Providence, reform and revolution, 1786-1796
Confounded expectations : 1796-1808
"The illustrious hereafter" : 1808-1815
Conclusion: "citizens of the world"
"Deifying prejudice" : race and removal in the early republic
"The hand of heaven is in it" : the blueprint for Indian removal
"A divine impulse" : removing Blacks
"The obvious designs of Heaven" : providence and the politics of removal
Conclusion: "judgments are yet to be visited upon us"
"Divided destinies" : the providential meanings of American slavery
"The fulfillment of our mission" : expansion and its critics
Slavery and providence
"The key to American history" : slavery and the rationale for secession
Conclusion: "that great idea of national continuity"
"The regenerated nation" : the Civil War and the price of reunion
"What is to be the mission of this nation?" : God and the Confederacy
"We will retrieve our destiny" : slavery, war, and reunion
Conclusion: "the great deliverance"
William Lloyd Garrison's complaint
Providence and the new South
"The sacred significance of this war"
Conclusion: "centennial reflections".
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Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876 by Nicholas Guyatt. ISBN 9780521687300. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
