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1 online resource (286 pages)
ISBN:
9780199781072
Serie:
Imagining the Americas Ser. v.6
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Christian Nation -- Section I: American Narratives -- 1. Citizenship and the Philippines Debates: The Religious Factor -- 2. Citizenship and the Philippines Debates: The Racial Factor -- Section II: Creating Citizens -- 3. A Connecticut Yankee in the Philippines -- 4. The National Christian -- Section III: The Eyes of the World -- 5. "The White Man's Burden," the Philippines, and the Anglo-American Alliance -- 6. Saxon Eyes and Barbaric Souls: Responses to the American Annexation of the Philippines in Europe and Latin America -- 7. Noli Me Tangere: Filipino Responses to Annexation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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ISBN 9780199740109
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199740109
Sprache:
Englisch
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=716677
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