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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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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... land of traumatic contrasts , " he wrote . " Here is a land in which a few are spectacu- larly rich while the masses remain abjectly poor . Here is a land where freedom and its blessings are a reality for the minority and an illusion ...
... land of traumatic contrasts , " he wrote . " Here is a land in which a few are spectacu- larly rich while the masses remain abjectly poor . Here is a land where freedom and its blessings are a reality for the minority and an illusion ...
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... land grant benefited fewer than a thousand families , only a fourth of them Huks . In 1952 , Robert Hardie , a U.S. land - tenure expert in Manila , expressed doubts about the reforms , and advised instead that the government buy big ...
... land grant benefited fewer than a thousand families , only a fourth of them Huks . In 1952 , Robert Hardie , a U.S. land - tenure expert in Manila , expressed doubts about the reforms , and advised instead that the government buy big ...
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... land , land , land — what the masses want more than above all else . " Skeptical toward Cory's land - reform program , he guessed that it would " determine her success or failure . " Fortich was the target of a misfired grenade in early ...
... land , land , land — what the masses want more than above all else . " Skeptical toward Cory's land - reform program , he guessed that it would " determine her success or failure . " Fortich was the target of a misfired grenade in early ...
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All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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