The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Kramer, Paul a.
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Kramer, Paul a.

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War,...
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The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Kramer, Paul a.

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

$143.45
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Kramer, Paul a.

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

$143.45
Author: Paul a. Kramer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this pathbreaking, transnational study, Paul A. Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines.

Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty and recognition. In the wake of a racial-exterminist war, U.S. colonialists, in dialogue with Filipino elites, divided the Philippine population into "civilized" Christians and "savage" animists and Muslims. The former were subjected to a calibrated colonialism that gradually extended them self-government as they demonstrated their "capacities." The latter were governed first by Americans, then by Christian Filipinos who had proven themselves worthy of shouldering the "white man's burden." Ultimately, however, this racial vision of imperial nation-building collided with U.S. nativist efforts to insulate the United States from its colonies, even at the cost of Philippine independence. Kramer provides an innovative account of the global transformations of race and the centrality of empire to twentieth-century U.S. and Philippine histories.



Author: Paul a. Kramer
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780807856536


Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 12/01/2006 pg. 65

About the Author
Paul A. Kramer is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University.
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