Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

by David Brody

Book Overview

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Visualizing American Empire explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226075346
• ISBN13: 9780226075341
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"