Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism.

Abstract

Introduction I. European and Colonial Origins 1. Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons 2. Aryans Follow the Sun 3. Science and Inequality 4. Racial Anglo-Saxonism in England II. American Destiny 5. Providential Nation 6. The Other Americans 7. Superior and Inferior Races 8. The Dissemination of Scientific Racialism 9. Romantic Racial Nationalism III. An Anglo-Saxon Political Ideology 10. Racial Destiny and the Indians 11. Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans 12. Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War 13. A Confused Minority 14. Expansion and World Mission Conclusion Notes Index