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Author Harris, Susan K., 1945-

Title God's arbiters [electronic resource] : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 / by Susan K. Harris.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 257 p., [15] p. of plates : ill.
Series Imagining the Americas
Imagining the Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199740109 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199781072 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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