"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 …
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"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"
"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"--
When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. Mining letters, speeches, textbooks, poems, political cartoons and other sourc…