Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World

by Oliver Charbonneau

In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim South in the early twentieth century. Often referred to as Moroland, the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao were sites of intense US engagement and laboratories of colonial modernity during an age of global imperialism.

Exploring the complex relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501750720
• ISBN13: 9781501750724
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up