In Our Image
by Stanley Karnow
America had a colony in Asia. Almost no American knows.
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you didn't know the United States had a colony in Asia and want to understand what that actually meant
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The United States colonized the Philippines in 1898 after the Spanish-American War — a fact that appears in almost no American history curriculum. Karnow spent years reconstructing the full arc of American colonial rule: the Philippine-American War in which 200,000 Filipinos died, the Americanization of Philippine education and culture, the complex relationship between two countries that share a history neither fully acknowledges. The most important book about the US-Philippines relationship ever written. A visitor dispatch that is also an indictment — of American imperialism and American amnesia simultaneously.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Philippines • Southeast Asia
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Philippines
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
