Research Catalog

Title

The American colonial state in the Philippines : global perspectives / edited by Julian Go and Anne L. Foster.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Go, Julian, 1970-
• Foster, Anne L., 1965-

Description

viii, 316 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional-an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar self-fashioning and insist on the importance of studying U.S. colonial rule in the context of other imperialist ventures. A necessary expansion of critical focus, The American Colonial State in the Philippinesis the first systematic attempt to examine the creation and administration of the American colonial state from comparative, global perspectives. Written by social scientists and historians, these essays investigate various aspects of American colonial government through comparison with and contextualization within colonial regimes elsewhere in the world-from British Malaysia and Dutch Indonesia to Japanese Taiwan and America's other major overseas colony, Puerto Rico. Contributors explore the program of political education in the Philippines; constructions of nationalism, race, and religion; the regulation of opium; connections to politics on the U.S. mainland; and anticolonial resistance. Tracking the complex connections, circuits, and contests across, within, and between empires that shaped America's colonial regime, The American Colonial State in the Philippinessheds new light on the complexities of American imperialism and turn-of-the-century colonialism.

Series Statement

American encounters/global interactions

Uniform Title

American encounters/global interactions.

Subjects

• History
• Electronic books
• 1800 - 1999
• United States > Territories and possessions > History
• Imperialism > History > 20th century
• Imperialism > History > 19th century
• Southeast Asia > Colonization > History
• Philippines > Colonization > History
• United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1921
• Philippines > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Philippines

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Empires, exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons / Paul A. Kramer -- Models for governing / Anne L. Foster -- Inheriting the "Moro problem" / Donna J. Amoroso -- Progressive machine conflict in early-twentieth-century U.S. politics and colonial state building in the Philippines / Patricio N. Abinales -- The chains of empire / Julian Go -- They have for the coast dwellers a traditional hatred / Paul Barclay -- Methods of domination and modes of resistance / Vince Boudreau.

ISBN

• 0822331012 (cloth)
• 0822330997 (pbk.)
• 9780822330998

LCCN

^^2002153862

OCLC

• 51087928
• SCSB-10207356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library