| Author/Contributor(s): | Gin Lum, Kathryn |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Date: | 12/01/2016 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world.