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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 57
... months of the year with nothing to do . " The rural areas meanwhile slumbered in seclusion and neglect as the peas- ants cultivated their rice fields , raised livestock and fished the waters . The friars , dreading change , did nothing ...
... months of the year with nothing to do . " The rural areas meanwhile slumbered in seclusion and neglect as the peas- ants cultivated their rice fields , raised livestock and fished the waters . The friars , dreading change , did nothing ...
Page 205
... months on Leyte . " I find this work very monotonous , trying to teach these monkeys to talk , ” he wrote home . " Most of these people are lazy and indolent , and I do not think they can stick to it to get an education . . . . And oh ...
... months on Leyte . " I find this work very monotonous , trying to teach these monkeys to talk , ” he wrote home . " Most of these people are lazy and indolent , and I do not think they can stick to it to get an education . . . . And oh ...
Page 282
... months ahead , without success . There could be no settlement , Hull repeated in his Tennessee drawl , until Japan conceded to withdraw from China . The protracted war in China was then bleeding their economy , but the Japanese leaders ...
... months ahead , without success . There could be no settlement , Hull repeated in his Tennessee drawl , until Japan conceded to withdraw from China . The protracted war in China was then bleeding their economy , but the Japanese leaders ...
Contents
All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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