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Empire's Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the P…

by Wesling, Meg

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In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley's project of "benevolent assimilation," they established a school system that center…