In our image
Subtitle: America's empire in the Philippines
By: Stanley Karnow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780394549750
Subjects: Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946; Philippines -- History
Description: This book is an account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, has now written an enthralling account of an almost forgotten subject: America's imperial experience in the Philippines. Panoramic in scope, profound in its perceptions and compassionate in its human portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants. Above all, its brilliant descriptions and analysis of this important chapter in American history holds lessons for the present and future. No other book on the subject is as comprehensive. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [453]-475.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: All in the family; title: In search of spices and souls; title: The Spanish bond; title: America goes global; title: Imperial democracy; title: Civilizing with a Krag; title: Little brown brothers; title: America exports itself; title: Stumbling toward self-rule; title: MacArthur's mandate; title: War and redemption; title: Dependent independence; title: Conjugal autocracy; title: Martyr and Madonna; title: Revolution and restoration; title: Chronology; title: Cast of principal characters