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Title: Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Miller ISBN: 0-300-03081-9 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Template for imperialism and modern imperial war
Comment: While many scholars and "military analysts" (Linn) have written up this war, none have done a more exhaustive job than Miller in detailing the rapacious American conquest of the Philippines, at the high and middle policy making levels. Also richly detailed is the political conflict among Americans, between hate-spewing war-mongering politicians and media voices and opponents of the war. As Miller aptly points out, the war served as the very template of later wars in Vietnam, and, frighteningly, today's "war on terrorism". Highest possible recommendation for anyone wanting a better understanding of the world, and human conflict.
Rating: 5
Summary: America's first Vietnam. We won this one.
Comment: Benevolent Assimilation is McKinley's phrase for the civilizing mission of America in the Philippines. Miller makes a good case that the Filipinos neither needed civilizing or Christianizing since they had both. What America really wanted was a colonial empire to establish itself as a great power. McKinley did not know what he wanted, but people made him believe in the civilizing mission of the U.S. government.
What Miller demonstrates in this book is that the Philippines wanted independence and not American government. The revolt which followed the Spanish American War was long and devastated the islands. Thousands lost their lives, and American troops showed no mercy in putting down the revolt. The revolt lasted for over three years, and cost the U.S. much in men and treasure.
America won, but lost seventy years later in Vietnam.
Rating: 5
Summary: Suberb history of a forgotten war
Comment: An excellent telling of a period that most Americans and Filipinos know little or nothing about. With America's new ownership of the Philippines, we were drawn into a second conflict once the Spanish were routed. The insurrectionist movement against America brought about a bloody and savage war that cost tens of thousands of lives. The third phase was the attempt to subdue the Moros, some of the toughest and most fearless warriors on the planet. The troops involved thought they would only be fighting Spanish regulars and then sent home. Rather, many spent years fighting in jungles and swamps against a clever and determined foe, and many were then shipped off to fight the Boxer's in China in 1900, only to be returned to battle the often fiendish inhabitants of places like Sibago Island, Jolo and Samar. A classic account and ranks with "Muddy Glory" and "Little Brown Brother" to name but a couple. There isn't much written about this conflict, but the information is out there. These lessons should have taught America about getting involved in smaller nations affairs.
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Title: The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies (Paperback)) by Brian McAllister Linn ISBN: 0700612254 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance by Daniel B. Schirmer, Stephen Rosskamm Shalom ISBN: 089608275X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1987 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by STANLEY KARNOW ISBN: 0345328167 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Muddy Glory: America's Indian Wars in the Philippines by Russell Roth ISBN: 0815804024 Publisher: Christopher Pub House Pub. Date: 01 January, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902 by Brian McAllister Linn ISBN: 0807849480 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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