God's Arbiters
Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902
Seiten
2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-974010-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-974010-9 (ISBN)
God's Arbiters provides a rich cultural history of Americans' attitudes toward empire-building in the wake of the Philippine-American War, illustrating how the conflict affected views of U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." Both were referring to the U.S. annexation of the Philippines in 1899. Drawing on documents ranging from Noah Webster's 1832 History of the United States through Congressional speeches and newspaper articles, and the anti-imperialist writings of Mark Twain, Harris keenly 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. She offers a provocative reading both of the debates' religious framework and of the evolution of Christian national identity within the U.S. She also moves outside U.S. geopolitical boundaries, reviewing responses to the Americans' venture into global imperialism among Europeans, Latin Americans, and Filipinos.
Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." Both were referring to the U.S. annexation of the Philippines in 1899. Drawing on documents ranging from Noah Webster's 1832 History of the United States through Congressional speeches and newspaper articles, and the anti-imperialist writings of Mark Twain, Harris keenly 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. She offers a provocative reading both of the debates' religious framework and of the evolution of Christian national identity within the U.S. She also moves outside U.S. geopolitical boundaries, reviewing responses to the Americans' venture into global imperialism among Europeans, Latin Americans, and Filipinos.
Susan K. Harris is Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas. She is the author of The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew (Palgrave, 2002) and The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (Cambridge UP, 1997), among other works.
Reihe/Serie | Imagining the Americas |
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Zusatzinfo | 25 illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 157 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-974010-0 / 0199740100 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-974010-9 / 9780199740109 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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