American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines - Insular Empire

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space.

List of contents

Introduction 1 Insular Territory: War, Democracy, and America’s "First Moment of Global Ambition" 2 Map: U.S. Colonial Science, Geo-Politics, and the Remapping of the Philippines 3 Landscape: The Burnham Plans and American Landscape Imperialism in Manila and Baguio 4 Road: W. Cameron Forbes, Philippine Roadwork, and the Production of Space 5 Coda: Insular Empire

About the author

Scott Kirsch is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving and editor, with Colin Flint, of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (Routledge).

Summary

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space.

Product details

• Authors: scott Kirsch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2023
• EAN: 9780367361808
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36180-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Colonialism & imperialism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Colonialism and imperialism, Philippines, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Human Geography, Regional Geography