Scott Kirsch

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines (eBook, ePUB)

Insular Empire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000839777
• Artikelnr.: 67120065

Autorenporträt

Scott Kirsch is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving and editor, with Colin Flint, of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Insular Territory: War
Democracy
and America's "First Moment of Global Ambition" 2 Map: U.S. Colonial Science
Geo-Politics
and the Remapping of the Philippines 3 Landscape: The Burnham Plans and American Landscape Imperialism in Manila and Baguio 4 Road: W. Cameron Forbes
Philippine Roadwork
and the Production of Space 5 Coda: Insular Empire