In Our Image: America's Empire in the PhilippinesThis book is an account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, has now written an enthralling account of an almost forgotten subject: America's imperial experience in the Philippines. Panoramic in scope, profound in its perceptions and compassionate in its human portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants. Above all, its brilliant descriptions and analysis of this important chapter in American history holds lessons for the present and future. No other book on the subject is as comprehensive. - Jacket flap. |
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Page 39
... Chinese merchants . With the rise of the Sung dynasty in the tenth century , however , China forged permanent trade ties with the islands . Hardy Chinese entrepreneurs established headquarters in coastal villages , as they did ...
... Chinese merchants . With the rise of the Sung dynasty in the tenth century , however , China forged permanent trade ties with the islands . Hardy Chinese entrepreneurs established headquarters in coastal villages , as they did ...
Page 62
... Chinese immigrant who landed in Manila from Fukien province in 1750. The Gastons and Locsins hold regular reunions and have published complex genealogical trees delineating their hybrid ances- try . Neither would have felt uncomfortable ...
... Chinese immigrant who landed in Manila from Fukien province in 1750. The Gastons and Locsins hold regular reunions and have published complex genealogical trees delineating their hybrid ances- try . Neither would have felt uncomfortable ...
Page 63
... Chinese , and they also fanned out around the country . Chinese shopkeepers became a feature of nearly every town and village , as they are still . Operating out of a small bamboo hut , they sell the peasants salt , kerosene , yard ...
... Chinese , and they also fanned out around the country . Chinese shopkeepers became a feature of nearly every town and village , as they are still . Operating out of a small bamboo hut , they sell the peasants salt , kerosene , yard ...
Contents
All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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