| Izvleček: | The American Colonial State in the Philippines is a methodical attempt to study the construction and management of the American colonial state from a global perspective. Go, in the introduction, argue, The point of analyzing the U.S. colonial state in the Philippines from a global perspective is neither to affirm nor to test the well-worn discourse of exceptionalism (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 3). The United States became a colonial power at the peak of global imperialism. However, the United States saw its project as exceptional - as we have seen previously with Rafael and Anderson ? as altruistic and benevolent rather than tyrannical and exploitative (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 11). In 1898, the US took over the Philippines, a vast archipelago an estimated seven thousand islands populated by seven million people of an assortment of ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the peak of global imperialism, the US nevertheless envisaged its rule as one of a kind -- a mission of benevolence rather than in tyranny. In this book, Go and Foster unravel this strange self-invention as benevolent assimilator, argue for the importance of learning about the US colonial project/rule in the framework of, and juxtaposed against other imperialist projects.
|
|---|