Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization

by Colleen Woods

Freedom Incorporated demonstrates how anticommunist political projects were critical to the United States' expanding imperial power in the age of decolonization, and how anticommunism was essential to the growing global economy of imperial violence in the Cold War era.

In this broad historical account, Colleen Woods demonstrates how, in the mid-twentieth century Philippines, US policymakers and Filipino elites promoted the islands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501749137
• ISBN13: 9781501749131
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher