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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 228
... political structure for the Philippines . In January 1901 , after seven months in Manila , he floated the notion to his commission . Quoting Alexis de Tocqueville's classic De- mocracy in America , he stressed the French writer's ...
... political structure for the Philippines . In January 1901 , after seven months in Manila , he floated the notion to his commission . Quoting Alexis de Tocqueville's classic De- mocracy in America , he stressed the French writer's ...
Page 237
... political stage to national dimensions . Taft had envisioned a national Philippine assembly whose legislation would be subject to an American veto . It was to be , in his vision , a political academy in which the Filipinos would learn ...
... political stage to national dimensions . Taft had envisioned a national Philippine assembly whose legislation would be subject to an American veto . It was to be , in his vision , a political academy in which the Filipinos would learn ...
Page 243
... political science , toured the islands for two months during the spring of 1912 , tirelessly gathering details on everything from education to aboriginal tribes . The " magnificent " work of U.S. health and welfare officials impressed ...
... political science , toured the islands for two months during the spring of 1912 , tirelessly gathering details on everything from education to aboriginal tribes . The " magnificent " work of U.S. health and welfare officials impressed ...
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All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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