03637nam 2200757 a 450 991046123260332120200520144314.00-19-983162-90-19-025282-01-283-12127-197866131212710-19-978107-9(CKB)2670000000094658(EBL)716677(OCoLC)729872814(SSID)ssj0000522956(PQKBManifestationID)12233218(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522956(PQKBWorkID)10539011(PQKB)10780485(StDuBDS)EDZ0001021736(MiAaPQ)EBC716677(Au-PeEL)EBL716677(CaPaEBR)ebr10472272(CaONFJC)MIL312127(EXLCZ)99267000000009465820100827d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGod's arbiters[electronic resource] Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 /by Susan K. HarrisOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (286 p.)Imagining the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-974010-0 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.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 world stageImagining the Americas.RacismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPolitical messianismUnited StatesHistoryChristianity and politicsUnited StatesHistoryImperialismHistoryUnited StatesForeign relationsPhilippinesPhilippinesForeign relationsUnited StatesPhilippinesAnnexation to the United StatesPhilippinesForeign public opinion, AmericanUnited StatesColonial questionUnited StatesTerritorial expansionElectronic books.RacismPolitical aspectsHistory.Political messianismHistory.Christianity and politicsHistory.ImperialismHistory.327.730599Harris Susan K.1945-847900MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461232603321God's arbiters1893742UNINA