The rediscovery of North America
"The assumption of an imperial right conferred by God, sanctioned by the state, and enforced by the militia, the assumption that one is due wealth in North America," he writes, is apparent in the journals of people on the Oregon Trail, in the pronouncements of nineteenth-century industrialists, and in the political rhetoric of our own day.
Print Book, English, ©1990
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1990
Thomas D. Clark lectures, 1990
1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm.
9780813117423, 0813117429
1031643671
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