Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith Religion in American War and Diplomacy【電子書籍】[ Andrew Preston ]

＜p＞A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and womenーfrom presidents to preachersーwho have plotted the country’s course in the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervorーliberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationistーthat framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln’s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-cen．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る