In the canon
The Contours of American History
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1961
- Pages
- Pages 513
American history read as three ages, mercantile, laissez-faire and corporate, arguing that at every turn the country chose expansion outward, into land, markets and other people's countries, rather than face sharing what it had at home.
Americans proceeded in the space of two generations to substitute the Manifest Destiny of empire for the Christian Commonwealth of Jonathan Edwards.
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