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American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines - Insular Empire (Hardcover)
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American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines - Insular Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography
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American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.S.
colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth
century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines
through the production of space. From concrete interventions in
infrastructure, urban planning, and built environments to more
abstract projects of mapping and territorialization, the book
traces the efforts of U.S. Insular Government agents to make space
for empire in the Philippines through forms of territory, map,
landscape, and road, and how these spaces were understood as
solutions to problems of colonial rule. Through the lens of space,
the book offers an original history of a highly transformative, but
largely misunderstood or forgotten, imperial moment, when the
Philippine archipelago, made up of thousands of islands and an
ethnically and religiously diverse population of more than seven
million, became the unlikely primary setting for U.S.
experimentation with formal colonial governance. Telling that story
around key figures including Cameron Forbes, Daniel Burnham, Dean
Worcester, and William Howard Taft, the book provides distinctive
chapters dedicated to spaces of territory (sovereignty), maps
(knowledge), landscape (aesthetics), and roads (circulation),
suggesting new and integrative historical geographical approaches.
This book will be of interest to students of Cultural, Historical,
and Political Geography, American History, American Studies,
Philippine Studies, Southeast Asia/Philippines; Asian Studies as
well as general readers interested in these areas.
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