In Our Image
America's Empire in the Philippines
Published on 24. November 2010
536 pages
978-0-307-77543-6 (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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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.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - All in the Family
- Chapter 2 - In Search of Spices and Souls
- Chapter 3 - The Spanish Bond
- Chapter 4 - America Goes Global
- Chapter 5 - Imperial Democracy
- Photo Insert
- Chapter 6 - Civilizing with a Krag
- Chapter 7 - Little Brown Brothers
- Chapter 8 - America Exports Itself
- Chapter 9 - Stumbling Toward Self-rule
- Photo Insert
- Chapter 10 - MacArthur's Mandate
- Chapter 11 - War and Redemption
- Chapter 12 - Dependent Independence
- Photo Insert
- Chapter 13 - Conjugal Autocracy
- Chapter 14 - Martyr and Madonna
- Chapter 15 - Revolution and Restoration
- Chronology
- Cast of Principal Characters
- Notes on Sources
- About the Author
