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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 14
... Filipinos lacked fabled kings and heroes ; the saints they wor- shiped were Western rather than Filipino . Before Spain arrived , they had been an assortment of tribes , without a central authority , a single language or a common ...
... Filipinos lacked fabled kings and heroes ; the saints they wor- shiped were Western rather than Filipino . Before Spain arrived , they had been an assortment of tribes , without a central authority , a single language or a common ...
Page 20
... Filipinos belonged to no social group larger than the village , which was in fact their family . Catholic priests spread through the countryside , further sanctifying the family by exhorting the Filipinos to identify with the Holy ...
... Filipinos belonged to no social group larger than the village , which was in fact their family . Catholic priests spread through the countryside , further sanctifying the family by exhorting the Filipinos to identify with the Holy ...
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... Filipinos by American standards . But the Americans had no other yardstick than their own . Besides , America's objective was to Americanize the Filipinos . To give high marks to the U.S. school system , as most Americans and Filipinos ...
... Filipinos by American standards . But the Americans had no other yardstick than their own . Besides , America's objective was to Americanize the Filipinos . To give high marks to the U.S. school system , as most Americans and Filipinos ...
Contents
All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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