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Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines - Bats, Balls, and Bayonets (Hardcover)
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Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines - Bats, Balls, and Bayonets (Hardcover)
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This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological,
and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United
States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the
aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and
occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an
attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist
economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system.
Sport became a primary means to achieve such goals, fostered
initially by the military, and then widely promoted in the schools
and the YMCA. Competitive programs, including international
athletic spectacles, channeled Filipino nationalism against Asian
rivals rather than the American occupiers as guerrilla warfare
ensued in the islands. The strategies learned in the Philippines,
now known as "soft power" remain prominent factors in current
American foreign policy.
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