Review Essay: Christianity,Literature,and American Empire;Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction;God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines,1898–1902;War and the American Difference;Christian America and the Kingdom of God;Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race,Empire,and the Plantation in American Literature,1880–1936

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