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

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Roots of ­Anglo-Saxonism¿7 delete¿ deleteAnglo-Saxon Myths¿8 delete¿ deleteBede, The ­Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Making of England¿9 delete¿ deleteGeoffrey of Monmouth's History of British Kings and the Arthurian Legend¿11 delete¿ deletePost-Norman England¿13

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

The Roots of American ­Anglo-Saxonism¿15 delete¿ deleteLate-Nineteenth-and Early ­Twentieth-Century ­Anglo-Saxonism¿17 delete¿ deleteThe ­Anglo-American Community¿28 delete¿ deleteThe White ­Anglo-Saxon Protestant¿30

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

Early German Migrations¿39 delete¿ deleteThe Revolution of 1848¿41 delete¿ deleteGerman-Americans and Politics¿44 delete¿ deleteGerman-Americans and German Unification¿46 delete¿ deleteGermans and ­Anglo-Saxonism: Common Origins and Anxieties¿53

Chapter III. Anglo-Saxonism in the Foreign Policy

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The Rise of the United States¿77 delete¿ deleteWilliam H. Seward: The Architect of Empire¿78 delete¿ deleteChanges in American Society¿80 delete¿ deleteAlfred Thayer Mahan and the New Navy¿82 delete¿ deleteMahan's Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy¿87 delete¿ deleteTheodore Roosevelt¿90 delete¿ deleteThe ­Anglo-American Rapprochement of the 1890s and its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy¿95 delete¿ deleteThe Experience of the Philippines and ­Anglo-Saxonism¿101 delete¿ deleteThe Philippine Commissions¿105 delete¿ deleteThe Boer War: A Crisis in ­Anglo-Saxonism and the ­Anglo-American Rapprochement¿109

Chapter IV. Anglo-Saxonism in the First World War

American Neutrality¿120 delete¿ deleteWilliam Jennings Bryan vs. Robert Lansing¿129 delete¿ deleteThe Role of the American Clergy in the First World War¿135 delete¿ deleteThe British and American Propaganda Machines¿137 delete¿ deleteThe ­Anglo-American Connection¿144 delete¿ deleteAnglo-Saxonism and the First World War¿148

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index