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Colonial crucible : empire in the making of the modern American state

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2009

Reveals how the experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but profoundly shaped U.S. policy and practice, both abroad and, crucially, at home. Essays show how the challenge of ruling such far-flung territories strained the U.S. state to its limits, creating both the need and the opportunity for bold social experiments not yet possible within the United States itself. Plunging Washington's rudimentary bureaucracy into the white heat of nationalist revolution and imperial rivalry, colonialism was a crucible of change in American statecraft. From an expansion of the federal government to the creation of agile public-private networks for more effective global governance, U.S. empire produced far-reaching innovations.

Bibliographic Information

Format: Book
Subject: Imperialism
Publication Year:2009
Language:English
Published:Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2009
ISBN:9780299231040
0299231046
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
On the Tropic of Cancer: transitions and transformations in the U.S. imperial state / Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney Johnson -- Reading imperial transitions: Spanish contraction, British expansion, and American irruption / Josep M. Fradera -- From old empire to new: the changing dynamics and tactics of American empire / Thomas McCormick -- Introduction / Alfred W. McCoy -- American penal forms and colonial Spanish custodial-regulatory practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- Prohibiting opium in the Philippines and the United States: the creation of an interventionist state / Anne L. Foster -- Policing the imperial periphery: Philippine pacification and the rise of the U.S. national security state / Alfred W. McCoy -- "The prison that makes men free": the Iwahig penal colony and the simulacra of the American state in the Philippines / Michael Salman -- Introduction / Adam Nelson -- Negotiating colonialism: "race," class, and education in early-twentieth-century Puerto Rico / Solsirée del Moral -- Enlightened tolerance or cultural capitulation? Contesting notions of American identity / Amílcar Antonio Barreto -- The business of education in the colonial Philippines, 1909-30 / Glenn Anthony May -- The imperial enterprise and educational policies in colonial Puerto Rico / Pablo Navarro-Rivera -- Understanding the American empire: colonialism, Latin Americanism, and professional social science, 1898-1920 / Courtney Johnson -- Introduction / Clare Corbould -- Race, empire, and transnational history / Paul A. Kramer -- Censuses in the transition to modern colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico / Francisco A. Scarano -- Race and the suffrage controversy in Cuba, 1898-1901 / Alejandro de la Fuente and Matthew Casey -- From Columbus to Ponce de León: Puerto Rican commemorations between empires, 1893-1908 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- A critical-historical genealogy of Koko (blood), 'Aina (land), Hawaiian identity, and western law and governance / Rona Tamiko Halualani -- Buying into empire: American consumption at the turn of the twentieth century / Kristin Hoganson -- Confabulating American colonial knowledge of the Philippines: what the social life of Jose E. Marco's forgeries and Ahmed Chalabi can tell us about the epistemology of empire / Michael Salman -- Introduction / Nancy Tomes -- Pacific crossings: imperial logics in United States' public health programs / Warwick Anderson -- A fever for empire: U.S. disease eradication in Cuba as colonial public health / Mariola Espinosa -- Mapping regional and imperial geographies: tropical disease in the U.S. South / Natalie J. Ring -- The conquest of molecules: wild yams and American scientists in Mexican jungles / Gabriela Soto Laveaga -- Tropical conquest and the rise of the environmental management state: the case of U.S. sanitary efforts in Panama / Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction / John Ohnesorge -- Empire and the transformation of citizenship / Christina Duffy Burnett -- The afterlife of empire: sovereignty and revolution in the Philippines / Vincente L. Rafael -- The U.S. constitution and Philippine colonialism: an enduring and unfortunate legacy / Owen J. Lynch -- Spanish structure, American theory: the legal foundations of a tropical new deal in the Philippine Islands, 1898-1935 / Anna Leah Fidelis T. Castañeda -- The hazards of Jeffersonianism: challenges of state building in the United States and its empire / Paul D. Hutchcroft -- Introduction: the military and the U.S. imperial state / Christopher Capozzola -- "Mohammedan religion made it necessary to fire": massacres on the American imperial frontier from South Dakota to Southern Philippines / Joshua Gedacht -- The U.S. army as an occupying force in Muslim Mindanao, 1899-1913 / Patricio N. Abinales -- Minutemen for the world: empire, citizenship, and the National Guard, 1903-1924 / Christopher Capozzola -- From Winship to Leahy: crisis, war, and transition in Puerto Rico / Jorge Rodríguez Beruff -- French and American imperial accommodation in the Caribbean during World War II: the experience of Guyane and the subaltern roles of Puerto Ricans / Humberto García-Muñiz and Rebeca Campo -- Guantánamo and the case of Kid Chicle: private contract labor and the development of the U.S. military / Jana K. Lipman -- The impact of the Philippine Wars (1898-1913) on the U.S. army / Brian McAllister Linn -- Introduction: environmental and economic management / J.R. McNeill -- Conservation and colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the birth of tropical forestry in the Philippines / Greg Bankoff -- Manila's imperial makeover: security, health, and symbolism / Daniel F. Doeppers -- "'The world was my garden": tropical botany and cosmopolitanism in American science, 1898-1935 / Stuart McCook -- Scientific superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit meteorology, and the Philippines under American rule, 1897-1924 / James Francis Warren -- The limits of American empire: democracy and militarism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Jeremi Suri -- Crucibles, capillaries, and pentimenti: reflections on imperial transformations / Nancy Tomes -- Empire in American history / Ian Tyrrell
Course: HIST470

Availability at HKSYU Library

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English Book (5/F) 973.88 COL 2009 Available