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God's arbiters Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902
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God's arbiters [electronic resource] : Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 / Susan K. Harris.
ISBN
9780190252823 (ebook) :
Published
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 257 p.) : ill., ports.
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Summary
Mark Twain called it 'pious hypocrisies'. President McKinley called it 'civilizing and Christianizing'. Both were referring to the US annexation of the Philippines in 1899. Drawing on documents ranging from Noah Webster's 1832 History of the United States to Congressional speeches and newspaper articles, and the anti-imperialist writings of Mark Twain, this book assesses the attitudes of Americans and the moralistic rhetoric that governed national and international debates over America's global mission at the turn into the twentieth century.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2015
Series
Imagining the Americas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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