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The blood of government : race, empire, the United States, & the Philippines /

In 1899 the United States launched a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. US imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies. This book reveals how racial politics served US empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kramer, Paul A. (Paul Alexander), 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Blood compacts : Spanish colonialism and the invention of the Filipino
  • From hide to heart : the Philippine-American war as race war
  • Dual mandates : collaboration and the racial state
  • Tensions of exposition : mixed messages at the St. Louis World's Fair
  • Representative men : the politics of nation-building
  • Empire and exclusion : ending the Philippine invasion of the United States.