Dino E. Buenviaje teaches history at Riverside City College and other campuses in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Roots of ­Anglo-Saxonism7 delete deleteAnglo-Saxon Myths8 delete deleteBede, The ­Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Making of England9 delete deleteGeoffrey of Monmouth's History of British Kings and the Arthurian Legend11 delete deletePost-Norman England13

Chapter I. Anglo-Saxonism and American Culture, 1895-1914

The Roots of American ­Anglo-Saxonism15 delete deleteLate-Nineteenth-and Early ­Twentieth-Century ­Anglo-Saxonism17 delete deleteThe ­Anglo-American Community28 delete deleteThe White ­Anglo-Saxon Protestant30

Chapter II. The ­German-American Connection, 1850-1914

Early German Migrations39 delete deleteThe Revolution of 184841 delete deleteGerman-Americans and Politics44 delete deleteGerman-Americans and German Unification46 delete deleteGermans and ­Anglo-Saxonism: Common Origins and Anxieties53

Chapter III. Anglo-Saxonism in the Foreign Policy

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The Rise of the United States77 delete deleteWilliam H. Seward: The Architect of Empire78 delete deleteChanges in American Society80 delete deleteAlfred Thayer Mahan and the New Navy82 delete deleteMahan's Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy87 delete deleteTheodore Roosevelt90 delete deleteThe ­Anglo-American Rapprochement of the 1890s and its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy95 delete deleteThe Experience of the Philippines and ­Anglo-Saxonism101 delete deleteThe Philippine Commissions105 delete deleteThe Boer War: A Crisis in ­Anglo-Saxonism and the ­Anglo-American Rapprochement109

Chapter IV. Anglo-Saxonism in the First World War

American Neutrality120 delete deleteWilliam Jennings Bryan vs. Robert Lansing129 delete deleteThe Role of the American Clergy in the First World War135 delete deleteThe British and American Propaganda Machines137 delete deleteThe ­Anglo-American Connection144 delete deleteAnglo-Saxonism and the First World War148

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index