03194nam 2200733 a 450 991096230430332120251116153445.0978661312127197801997810720199781079978019025282301902528209781283121279128312127197801998316230199831629(MiAaPQ)EBC7034525(CKB)24235121400041(MiAaPQ)EBC716677(Au-PeEL)EBL716677(CaPaEBR)ebr10472272(CaONFJC)MIL312127(OCoLC)729872814(Au-PeEL)EBL7034525(EXLCZ)992423512140004120100827d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGod's arbiters Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 /by Susan K. Harris1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2011xii, 257 p., [15] p. of plates illImagining the Americas9780199740109 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.Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century.Imagining the Americas.RacismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPolitical messianismUnited StatesHistoryChristianity and politicsUnited StatesHistoryImperialismHistoryUnited StatesForeign relationsPhilippinesPhilippinesForeign relationsUnited StatesPhilippinesAnnexation to the United StatesPhilippinesForeign public opinion, AmericanUnited StatesColonial questionUnited StatesTerritorial expansionRacismPolitical aspectsHistory.Political messianismHistory.Christianity and politicsHistory.ImperialismHistory.327.730599Harris Susan K.1945-1807589MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962304303321God's arbiters4357406UNINA