In Our Image
America's Empire in the Philippines
Published on 3. March 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-345-32816-8 (ISBN)
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"A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries."-San Francisco Chronicle
Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines "in our image," an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.
"Stanley Karnow has written the ultimate book-brilliant, panoramic, engrossing-about American behavior overseas in the twentieth century."-The Boston Sunday Globe
"A page-turning story and authoritative history."-The New York Times
"Perhaps the best journalist writing on Asian affairs."-Newsweek
Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines "in our image," an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.
"Stanley Karnow has written the ultimate book-brilliant, panoramic, engrossing-about American behavior overseas in the twentieth century."-The Boston Sunday Globe
"A page-turning story and authoritative history."-The New York Times
"Perhaps the best journalist writing on Asian affairs."-Newsweek
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-345-32816-8 (9780345328168)
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Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines "in our image," an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.