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Commercial providence: the secret destiny of the American empire/ Patrick Mendis

By: Mendis, PatrickMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: University Press of America, 2008Description: xxix, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780761852438Subject(s): Providence and government of God | Founding Fathers of the United States | Freemasonry--Political aspectsDDC classification: 320.83

Contents:

Foreword / Stephen Joel Trachtenberg -- Preface -- Providence and empire. A rendezvous with destiny -- Part I. The birth of a nation -- E pluribus unum : out of many, one ; Freemasonry as a catalyst and high priest ; Worldviews of colonists and pilgrims -- Part II. A philosophic commercial empire -- Adam Smith on founding America ; Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends ; The Commerce Clause as the force for unity -- Part III. Annuit coeptis, providence (God) favors our undertakings -- The Pythagorean Potomac delta ; The anatomy of commercial providence ; The mercurial ruler and sacred Constitution Avenue ; Altar of empire : the Virgoan federal triangle -- Part IV. James Madison's universal empire -- Novus ordo seclorum and the new world order ; Madison's grand strategy for a universal empire -- Epilogue -- God's crucible nation : predestiny or free will?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section	320.83 MEN/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10856

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Foreword / Stephen Joel Trachtenberg --
Preface --
Providence and empire. A rendezvous with destiny --
Part I. The birth of a nation --
E pluribus unum : out of many, one ; Freemasonry as a catalyst and high priest ; Worldviews of colonists and pilgrims --
Part II. A philosophic commercial empire --
Adam Smith on founding America ; Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends ; The Commerce Clause as the force for unity --
Part III. Annuit coeptis, providence (God) favors our undertakings --
The Pythagorean Potomac delta ; The anatomy of commercial providence ; The mercurial ruler and sacred Constitution Avenue ; Altar of empire : the Virgoan federal triangle --
Part IV. James Madison's universal empire --
Novus ordo seclorum and the new world order ; Madison's grand strategy for a universal empire --
Epilogue --
God's crucible nation : predestiny or free will?

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