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ISBN-10:: 0807856533
ISBN-13:: 9780807856536
Pub. Date:: 04/17/2006
Publisher:: The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-10:: 0807856533
ISBN-13:: 9780807856536
Pub. Date:: 04/17/2006
Publisher:: The University of North Carolina Press

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Overview

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this pathbreaking, transnational study, Paul A. Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines.

Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty and recognition. In the wake of a racial-exterminist war, U.S. colonialists, in dialogue with Filipino elites, divided the Philippine population into "civilized" Christians and "savage" animists and Muslims. The former were subjected to a calibrated colonialism that gradually extended them self-government as they demonstrated their "capacities." The latter were governed first by Americans, then by Christian Filipinos who had proven themselves worthy of shouldering the "white man's burden." Ultimately, however, this racial vision of imperial nation-building collided with U.S. nativist efforts to insulate the United States from its colonies, even at the cost of Philippine independence. Kramer provides an innovative account of the global transformations of race and the centrality of empire to twentieth-century U.S. and Philippine histories.

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ISBN-13:	9780807856536
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	04/17/2006
Edition description:	1
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Paul A. Kramer is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction: Sliding Scales: Race, Empire, and Transnational History	1
Chapter 1	Blood Compacts: Spanish Colonialism and the Invention of the Filipino	35
Chapter 2	From Hide to Heart: The Philippine-American War as Race War	87
Chapter 3	Dual Mandates: Collaboration and the Racial State	159
Chapter 4	Tensions of Exposition: Mixed Messages at the St. Louis World's Fair	229
Chapter 5	Representative Men: The Politics of Nation-Building	285
Chapter 6	Empire and Exclusion: Ending the Philippine Invasion of the United States	347
	Conclusion: The Difference Empire Made	433
	Notes	437
	Bibliography	481
	Index	511

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Blood of Government does valuable work in laying out the intricacies of racial (re)formations in the service of and against colonialism. . . . This book has much to offer those interested in Phillipine-American relations as well as postcolonial studies, and, surprisingly, given its length, leaves one wishing for more.—Journal of American History

The Blood of Government is a very important work. . . . It [approaches] its subject in a fresh and provocative way.—American Historical Review

A formidable assessment of the intertwined nature of race and U.S. imperialism.—Journal of Southern History

Moves easily—and often brilliantly—across geographic and disciplinary boundaries to probe the dynamics of racial formation in the context of the U.S. Empire. . . . A truly transnational study of empire in which forces in the metropole and colony carry equally explanatory weight. . . . Sure to be a touchstone of transnational history for years to come.—Journal of American Ethnic History

This commendable transnational history should serve as a welcome invitation to both Americans and Filipinos to scale each other's boondocks, so that in these 'remote areas' of misunderstanding, which have caused many wounds in the past, lasting healing may finally take place.—Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines is richly illustrated, clearly written, and full of vivid conceptualized terms. . . . The skillful way in which Kramer interweaves cultural, social, military, and political narratives makes his book a standard-setter in international history. It is a must-read for historians interested in imperial culture, racial formation, comparative empires, and nationalism, as well as those with area-studies interests in Philippine and US history.—International History Review

Kramer has pulled. . . many skeins together under one cover for more general audiences. Recommended.—Choice

A useful and often original analysis of a very interesting and highly complex period of colonial history.—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

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