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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Susan K., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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.