God's arbiters : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Imagining the Americas.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.