1st Edition

American Exceptionalism Vol 4

By Timothy Roberts, Lindsay DiCuirci Copyright 2013
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    American exceptionalism – the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations – is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.

    1: Drayton, A Charge, on the Rise of the American Empire; 1: William Henry Drayton, A Charge, on the Rise of the American Empire (Charleston, SC: David Bruce, 1776).; 2: West, A Sermon, Delivered Upon the Late National Thanksgiving; 2: Samuel West, A Sermon, Delivered upon the Late National Thanksgiving (Boston, MA: Samuel Etheridge, 1795).; 3: Martin, A New Scene Interesting to the Citizens of the United States of America; 3: Alexander Martin, A New Scene Interesting to the Citizens of the United States of America, Additional to the Historical Play of Columbus (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas Condie, 1798).; 4: Rogers, An Oration, Pronounced At Campton, New Hampshire; 4: John Rogers, An Oration, Pronounced at Campton, New Hampshire, on the 4th of July 1803 (Concord, NH: George Hough, 1803).; 5: Marcy, An Oration On The Three Hundred And Eighteenth Anniversary Of The Discovery Of America; 5: William Learned Marcy, An Oration on the Three Hundred and Eighteenth Anniversary of the Discovery of America, Delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, in the County of Rensselaer; and State of New-York. With a Traditional Account of the Life of Tammany, an Indian Chief (Troy, NY: Oliver Lyon, 1809).; 6: Seward, The Army Of The United States Not To Be Employed As A Police To Enforce The Laws Of The Conquerors Of Kansas; 6: William Seward, The Army of the United States Not to Be Employed as a Police to Enforce the Laws of the Conquerors of Kansas (Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, 1856).; 7: Wigfall, Speech in the Us Senate; 7: Louis Wigfall, Speech in the US Senate, 36th Congress, 1st session, 22 March 1860, Congressional Globe (1860), pp. 1303–4.; 8: Anon., ‘The National Crisis’; 8: Anon., ‘The National Crisis’, Christian Review , 26 (July 1861), pp. 487–521.; 9: Nadal, The War in the Light of Divine Providence; 9: Bernard Harrison Nadal, The War in the Light of Divine Providence: A Fast Day Sermon (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1863).; 10: Palmer, The Opening Future; or, the Results of the Present War; 10: Ray Palmer, The Opening Future; or, The Results of the Present War. A Thanksgiving Discourse, November 26th, 1863 (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1863).; 11: Sunderland, The Crisis of the Times; 11: Byron Sunderland, The Crisis of the Times: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Washington D.C., on the Evening of The National Fast Day, Thursday, April 30, 1863 (Washington, DC: ‘National Banner’ Press, 1863).; 12: Bragg, ‘ Under Which King, Bezonian? ’; 12: H. Bragg, ‘ Under which King, Bezonian?’A Challenge elicited by The Hon. J. Lothrop Motley’s Address on Historic Progress and American Democracy. Inscribed Respectfully [But Without Leave]to Professor Blackie, whose Arguments in his Celebrated Lecture on Democracy Much of the Quoted Matter herein goes Strongly to Support (London and Liverpool: Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Edward Howell, 1869).; 13: Seligman, ‘Economics and Social Progress’; 13: Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, ‘Economics and Social Progress’, Publications of the American Economic Association , 4 (1903), pp. 52–70.

    Biography

    Timothy Roberts