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portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants.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 179
... town of Malabon , " we got orders to spare no one , " recalled Anthony Michea , an artilleryman . " We went in and killed every native we met , men , women and children . It was a dreadful sight , the killing of the poor creatures ...
... town of Malabon , " we got orders to spare no one , " recalled Anthony Michea , an artilleryman . " We went in and killed every native we met , men , women and children . It was a dreadful sight , the killing of the poor creatures ...
Page 204
... town could be sheer tedium . Benjamin Neal , stationed in Pangasinan province , nostalgically awaited mail that brought him and a fellow teacher football scores , fraternity gossip and other news from Syracuse University , their alma ...
... town could be sheer tedium . Benjamin Neal , stationed in Pangasinan province , nostalgically awaited mail that brought him and a fellow teacher football scores , fraternity gossip and other news from Syracuse University , their alma ...
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... town , and pointed to the " self - sustaining and self - administering " New England town- ship as a paradigm : " The town government is the practical way of building up a general government . Make the town government autonomous so that ...
... town , and pointed to the " self - sustaining and self - administering " New England town- ship as a paradigm : " The town government is the practical way of building up a general government . Make the town government autonomous so that ...
Contents
All in the Family | 3 |
In Search of Spices and Souls | 26 |
The Spanish Bond | 48 |
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