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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 and insist on the importance of studying U.S. colonial rule in the context of other imperialist ventures. A necessary expansion of critical focus, The American Colonial State in the Philippines is the first systematic attempt to examine the creation and administration of the American colonial state from comparative, global perspectives. Written by social scientists and historians, these essays investigate various aspects of American colonial government through comparison with and contextualization within colonial regimes elsewhere in the world—from British Malaysia and Dutch Indonesia to Japanese Taiwan and America's other major overseas colony, Puerto Rico. Contributors explore the program of political education in the Philippine

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Author

Julian Go, Anne L. Foster, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Paul A. Kramer, Julian Go, Anne L. Foster

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283064439

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Political Science

Rating

3.62 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14