Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800

Abstract

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Development of a Millennial Tradition in Colonial America: 1. Millennialism and the origins of Anglo-American radicalism 2. Colonial millennialism on the eve of the revolutionary crisis Part II. The Rise and Decline of Millennialism in the Revolutionary Era: 3. Whig resistance and apocalyptical Manichaeanism 4. The revolutionary millennialism of the 1770's 5. Visions of progress and ruin in the critical period Part III. The Eschatological Revival of the 1790's: 6. Exegesis 7. Francophilic millennialism and partisan Republican ideology 8. Biblical millennialism and radical Enlightened utopianism 9. Francophobic reaction and evangelical activism Notes Index.

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