Commercial providence: the secret destiny of the American empire/
Patrick Mendis
- London: University Press of America, 2008.
- xxix, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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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