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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 209
... claimed to need raw materials for their home industries , mar- kets for their manufactured products and targets of investment for their capi- tal , and they bled their colonies , at times flagrantly , for the exclusive profit of the ...
... claimed to need raw materials for their home industries , mar- kets for their manufactured products and targets of investment for their capi- tal , and they bled their colonies , at times flagrantly , for the exclusive profit of the ...
Page 372
... claimed to know that Muammar el - Qaddafi was having a homosexual affair with his foreign minister and expressed shock at Idi Amin's habit of urinating in public . Vaunting her big - business connections , she once apologized for ...
... claimed to know that Muammar el - Qaddafi was having a homosexual affair with his foreign minister and expressed shock at Idi Amin's habit of urinating in public . Vaunting her big - business connections , she once apologized for ...
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... claimed success - credibly , according to the CIA's estimates . Philip Habib , the diplomatic troubleshooter , now plunged into the confu- sion . A Brooklynite of Lebanese origin , he was a veteran of nearly forty years in the State ...
... claimed success - credibly , according to the CIA's estimates . Philip Habib , the diplomatic troubleshooter , now plunged into the confu- sion . A Brooklynite of Lebanese origin , he was a veteran of nearly forty years in the State ...
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All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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