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Jul 14, 2021 · Across the Atlantic, in 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill smugly inquired, “Why be apologetic about Anglo-Saxon superiority, that we were superior, that we had the common...
An important racial belief system in late 19th- and early 20th-century British and US thought advanced the argument that the civilization of English-speaking nations was superior to that of any other nations because of racial traits and characteristics inherited from the Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain.
Feb 1, 1983 · Reginald Horsman exposes a darker side of the United States past when he concludes in this provocative study that by 1850, rather than after the Civil War, the great majority of white North Americans saw themselves as a separate, innately superior Anglo-Saxon people, successors to the Roman Empire, who were destined to bring good government ...
- Reginald Horsman
- 1981
Of course, these early beliefs about Anglo-Saxon superiority were not racial. But by the early nineteenth century, under the influence of a swelling German nationalism and the European Romantic movement, the idea of superior Anglo-Saxon institutions gradually became the idea of innate Anglo-Saxon racial strength.
United Kingdom - Anglo-Saxon, England, History: Although Germanic foederati, allies of Roman and post-Roman authorities, had settled in England in the 4th century ce, tribal migrations into Britain began about the middle of the 5th century.
Apr 23, 2024 · Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are now in England and Wales.
In its most general form, Anglo-Saxonism extolled the traditions of the English people before the Norman conquest, who were themselves usually understood to be the descendants of old Germanic tribes of northern Europe: a people superior to others by virtue of their cultural possession of ethical values, legal principles, and governmental structu...
