Policing America's Empire The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

Name: Policing America's Empire The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
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ISBN: 9780299234140

ISBN-10: 0299234142

ISBN-13: 9780299234140

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alfred W. McCoy, R. Anderson Sutton, Thongchai Winichakul

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to todayrsquo;s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from Americarsquo;s first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence units anywhere under the American flag. InPolicing Americarsquo;s EmpireAlfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even after Washington freed its colony and won global power in 1945, it would intervene in the…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Prologue: Analogies of Empire



Capillaries of Empire



U.S. Colonial Police



Colonial Coercion



Surveillance and Scandal



Paramilitary Pacification



Constabulary Covert Operations



Policing the Tribal Zone



American Police in Manila



The Conley Case



President Wilson's Surveillance State



Philippine National Police



President Quezon's Commonwealth



Philippine Republic



Martial Law Terror



Unsheathing the Sword



Ramos's Supercops



Estrada's Racketeering



Extrajudicial Executions



Crucibles of Counterinsurgency


Notes


Index