America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Book Overview

America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens.

America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America's sense of itself. In its examination of America's "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845531582
• ISBN13: 9781845531584
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"