The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? …
At the dawn of the twentieth century, U.S. Army occupied Manila and plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign. Armed with technology from America's first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created modern police and intelligence units. In Policing America's E…
Espionage, American -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century. Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Secret service. Philippines -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. (publisher).
An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811.
An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811.
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in cent…
