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God's arbiters : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 / by Susan K. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Susan K., 1945-
- Series:
- Imagining the Americas.
- Imagining the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Political messianism--United States--History.
- Political messianism.
- Christianity and politics--United States--History.
- Christianity and politics.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- United States--Foreign relations--Philippines.
- United States.
- Philippines--Foreign relations--United States.
- Philippines.
- Philippines--Annexation to the United States.
- Philippines--Foreign public opinion, American.
- United States--Colonial question.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 257 p., [15] p. of plates : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Christian nation
- section 1: American narratives
- Citizenship and the Philippine debates : the religious factor
- Citizenship and the Philippine debates : the racial factor
- section 2: Creating citizens
- A Connecticut Yankee in the Philippines
- The national Christian
- section 3: The eyes of the world
- "The White man's burden," the Philippines, and the Anglo-American alliance
- "Saxon eyes and barbaric souls" : non-Anglo responses to the American annexation of the Philippines
- Noli me tangere : Filipino responses to annexation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613121271
- 9780199781072
- 0199781079
- 9780190252823
- 0190252820
- 9781283121279
- 1283121271
- 9780199831623
- 0199831629
- OCLC:
- 729872814
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