num_pages: 418
description: First published in 1960, Little Brown Brother won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians in 1962 as the book which "best combined serious historical scholarship and literary distinction." Available again, this book looks at a long history of Filipino struggle forindependence. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898, the Philippines--a colony of Spain for nearly four centuries--was already in revolt against colonial rule, and its fight for freedom almost won. A vivid and closely documented narrative, this book looks at Philippine resistance toSpanish and American attempts at colonization, focusing particularly on the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 which killed 225,000 Filipinos.
language: English
title: Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippines
titlecomplete: Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippines
genres: History, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 54
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Francis Parkman Prize
publisher: Oxford University Press