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"This is an important and distinctive work. As an earlier discourse for understanding the diffusion of modernizing influences, technology, and global exchange, imperialism is the most important precursor to today's globalized economy and culture. Yet there are few studies of imperialism (and particularly American imperialism) that are broadly comparative or contextual. Filling this blank spot on the map, "The American Colonial State in the Philippines" will be of interest to a wide audience."--Nick Cullather, author of "Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960"
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Global Perspectives on the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines / Julian Go 1
Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and U.S. Empires, 1880–1910 / Paul A. Kramer 43
Models for Governing: Opium and Colonial Policies in Southeast Asia, 1898–1910 / Anne L. Foster 92
Inheriting the “Moro Problem”: Muslim Authority and Colonial Rule in British Malaya and the Philippines / Donna J. Amoroso 118
Progressive-Machine Conflict in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Politics and Colonial-State Building in the Philippines / Patricio N. Abinales 148
The Chains of Empire: State Building and “Political Education” in Puerto Rico and the Philippines / Julian Go 182
“They Have for the Coast Dwellers a Traditional Hatred”: Governing Igorots in Northern Luzon and Central Taiwan, 1985-1915 / Paul Barclay 217
Methods of Domination and Modes of Resistance: The U.S. Colonial State and Philippine Mobilization in Comparative Perspective / Vince Boudreau 256
Contributors 291
Index 293
About the author
Julian Go is Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Anne L. Foster is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University.
Summary
Attempts to examine the creation and administration of the American colonial state from comparative, global perspectives. Tracking the connections, circuits, and contests across, within, and between empires which shaped America's colonial regime, this work sheds light on the complexities of American imperialism and turn-of-the-century colonialism.
