The blood of government
Subtitle: race, empire, the United States, and the Philippines
By: by Paul A. Kramer.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780807829851; 9780807856536
Subjects: Race relations -- Philippines.; Race relations -- United States.; Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946.; United States -- History -- 1865-
Description: 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 and nation in both the US and the Philippines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Blood compacts : Spanish colonialism and the invention of the Filipino; title: From hide to heart : the Philippine-American war as race war; title: Dual mandates : collaboration and the racial state; title: Tensions of exposition : mixed messages at the St. Louis World's Fair; title: Representative men : the politics of nation-building; title: Empire and exclusion : ending the Philippine invasion of the United States.