Susan K. Harris. God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902.
God’s Arbiters examines the centrality of religious rhetoric in the debates over the annexation of the Philippines that took place during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and its aftermath. Specifically, Americans conceived of their nation as having a divine mandate to model and defend freedom in t...
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | God’s Arbiters examines the centrality of religious rhetoric in the debates over the annexation of the Philippines that took place during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and its aftermath. Specifically, Americans conceived of their nation as having a divine mandate to model and defend freedom in the rest of the world. Harris shows that expansionists and anti-expansionists alike shared the vision of the United States as divinely ordained to a global redemptive mission. They also shared the f... |
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