Blood of Government Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

Name: Blood of Government Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
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ISBN: 9780807856536

ISBN-10: 0807856533

ISBN-13: 9780807856536

Edition: 2006

Authors: Paul A. Kramer

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In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this pathbreaking, transnational study, Paul Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines. Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Paul A. Kramer is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Sliding Scales: Race, Empire, and Transnational History



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


Conclusion: The Difference Empire Made


Notes


Bibliography


Index