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Monetary authorities : capitalism and decolonization in the American colonial Philippines / Allan E. S. Lumba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lumba, Allan E. S., 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Philippines.
- Capitalism.
- Decolonization--Philippines.
- Decolonization.
- Anti-imperialist movements--Philippines.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Colonization--Economic aspects--History--19th century.
- Colonization.
- Philippines--History--1898-.
- Philippines.
- Philippines--Politics and government--1898-1935.
- Philippines--Economic conditions.
- Philippines--Foreign economic relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Philippines.
- United States.
- Colonization--Economic aspects.
- Economic history.
- International economic relations.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In Monetary Authorities Allan E. S. Lumba explores how money worked to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. By tracing the archives of economic experts from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, Lumba illuminates the colonial state's obsession with policing the economic activities of colonized subjects, who they believed could radically threaten the security of capital accumulation and U.S. imperial sovereignty. Authority over money, however, did not remain the possession of American colonizers. Filipino statesmen would attempt to gain control over colonial money, coveting both its material and meaning-making power. Lumba thus examines how struggles over the colonial monetary system would resonate with broader struggles over capitalism and decolonization in the Philippines and U.S. empire"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The wealth of colonies
- Mongrel currencies
- Bad money
- An orgy of mismanagement
- Under common wealth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lumba, Allan E. S., 1981- Monetary authorities.
- ISBN:
- 9781478015550
- 1478015551
- 9781478018186
- 1478018186
- OCLC:
- 1259508184
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