God's arbiters [electronic resource] : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 / by Susan K. Harris.
Material type: TextSeries: Imagining the AmericasPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: xii, 257 p., [15] p. of plates : illSubject(s):- Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Political messianism -- United States -- History
- Christianity and politics -- United States -- History
- Imperialism -- History
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Philippines
- Philippines -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Philippines -- Annexation to the United States
- Philippines -- Foreign public opinion, American
- United States -- Colonial question
- United States -- Territorial expansion
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- E183.8.P5 H37 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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