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Interdisciplinary collection placing the U.S. imperial project in the Philippines within a global, comparative framework

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Global Perspectives on the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines / Julian Go 1
Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and U.S. Empires, 1880–1910 / Paul A. Kramer 43
Models for Governing: Opium and Colonial Policies in Southeast Asia, 1898–1910 / Anne L. Foster 92
Inheriting the “Moro Problem”: Muslim Authority and Colonial Rule in British Malaya and the Philippines / Donna J. Amoroso 118
Progressive-Machine Conflict in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Politics and Colonial-State Building in the Philippines / Patricio N. Abinales 148
The Chains of Empire: State Building and “Political Education” in Puerto Rico and the Philippines / Julian Go 182
“They Have for the Coast Dwellers a Traditional Hatred”: Governing Igorots in Northern Luzon and Central Taiwan, 1985-1915 / Paul Barclay 217
Methods of Domination and Modes of Resistance: The U.S. Colonial State and Philippine Mobilization in Comparative Perspective / Vince Boudreau 256
Contributors 291
Index 293

About the Author

Julian Go is Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Anne L. Foster is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University.

Reviews

"The American Colonial State in the Philippines is an excellent collection of essays that propels forward the project of placing American colonialism in a comparative and, indeed, global perspective." Michael Salman, author of The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines