Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets

by Gerald R Gems and Gerald R. Gems

This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498536654
• ISBN13: 9781498536653
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"