God's arbiters : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 / by Susan K. Harris.

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.

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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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