TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Susan K.
TI  - God's arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 
T2  - Imagining the Americas
SN  - 9780199781072
AV  - E183.8.P5 H37 2011eb
U1  - 327.730599 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Racism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Political messianism
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Racisme
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Christianisme et politique
KW  - Impérialisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - International
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - International Relations
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Public opinion, American
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Annexation to the United States
KW  - Foreign public opinion, American
KW  - Colonial question
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - Expansion territoriale
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) 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
N2  - When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United States was divinely appointed to bring democracy--and with it, white Protestant culture--to the rest of the world. They were, in the words of U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge, "God's arbiters," a civilizing force with a righteous role to play on the wor
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