The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the PhilippinesIn 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their co |
Contents
Sliding Scales Race Empire and Transnational History | 1 |
Spanish Colonialism and the Invention of the Filipino | 35 |
The PhilippineAmerican War as Race War | 87 |
Collaboration and the Racial State | 159 |
Mixed Messages at the St Louis Worlds Fair | 229 |
The Politics of NationBuilding | 285 |
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