Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines

by Reo Matsuzaki

How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United States, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he shows similar situations produce different outcomes and yet lead us to one conclusion.

Contemporary statebuilding efforts by the US and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501734830
• ISBN13: 9781501734830
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher