"Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an …
"33" Result
Sort By:
"This book reveals the little-known story of how the United States colonized and governed Southeast Asian Muslim territories in the earlytwentieth century"--
"This book reveals the little-known story of how the United States colonized and governed Southeast Asian Muslim territories in the early twentieth century"--
Other frontiers -- Imagining the Moro: racial and spatial fantasies in Mindanao-Sulu -- Courtrooms, clinics, and colonies: remaking the southern Philippines -- Civilizational imperatives: building colonial classrooms -- Corrective violence: on fear, massacre, and punishment -- T…
"This book reveals the little-known story of how the United States colonized and governed Southeast Asian Muslim territories in the early twentieth century"--
"This book reveals the little-known story of how the United States colonized and governed Southeast Asian Muslim territories in the early twentieth century"--
Interdisciplinary collection placing the U.S. imperial project in the Philippines within a global, comparative framework.
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 …
In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine…