The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives

by Julian Go

In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional--an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar self-fashioning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330997
• ISBN13: 9780822330998
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"