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The blood of government : race, empire, the United States, & the Philippines / Paul A. Kramer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Paul A. (Paul Alexander), 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philippines--History--1898-1946.
- Philippines.
- United States--History--1865-.
- United States.
- Philippines--Race relations.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (553 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1899 the United States launched a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. US imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies. This book reveals how racial politics served US empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the US and the Philippines.
- Contents:
- Blood compacts : Spanish colonialism and the invention of the Filipino
- From hide to heart : the Philippine-American war as race war
- Dual mandates : collaboration and the racial state
- Tensions of exposition : mixed messages at the St. Louis World's Fair
- Representative men : the politics of nation-building
- Empire and exclusion : ending the Philippine invasion of the United States.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-510) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890873347
- 9780807877173
- 0807877174
- OCLC:
- 476236975
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