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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 97
... hoped , would quiet the hawks in Washington , while scaring the Spanish into granting broad concessions to the Cubans . The so - called fifty- million bill passed unanimously , but his maneuver went awry . The warmongers now reckoned ...
... hoped , would quiet the hawks in Washington , while scaring the Spanish into granting broad concessions to the Cubans . The so - called fifty- million bill passed unanimously , but his maneuver went awry . The warmongers now reckoned ...
Page 125
... hoped to acquire a Philippine base if the archipelago were carved up or perhaps he could use Germany's presence there to bargain for territory elsewhere . Dewey , who hated Germans , was certain that they had come to help the Spanish ...
... hoped to acquire a Philippine base if the archipelago were carved up or perhaps he could use Germany's presence there to bargain for territory elsewhere . Dewey , who hated Germans , was certain that they had come to help the Spanish ...
Page 399
... hoped to impress upon Vice President Walter Mondale , who planned to stop in Manila during a tour of Asia the next month , that he was not the ogre portrayed by his opponents . Realizing that Mondale would look ludicrous arriving there ...
... hoped to impress upon Vice President Walter Mondale , who planned to stop in Manila during a tour of Asia the next month , that he was not the ogre portrayed by his opponents . Realizing that Mondale would look ludicrous arriving there ...
Contents
All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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