Civilizational imperatives : Americans, Moros and the colonial world /
Oliver Charbonneau
- Philippine Edition.
- Quezon City, Philippines : Ateneo De Manila University Press, c2021
- xxii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Imagining the Moro: Racial and Spatial Fantasies in Mindanao-Sulu -- 2. Courtrooms, Clinics and Colonies: Remaking the Southern Philippines -- 3. Civilizational Imperatives: Building Colonial Classrooms -- 4. Corrective Violence: On fear, Massacre and Punishment -- 5. Tropical Idylls: Maintaining Colonial Spaces and Bodies -- 6. Moros in America: Visiting the Metropole in Fact and Fiction -- 7. Imperial Interactivities: Mindanao-Sulu in a Connected World -- Conclusion: Colonial Remains.
Civilizational Imperatives is a story of colonization and connection, reaching across nations and empires in its examination of a Southeast Asian space under US sovereignty. It presents an innovative new portrait of the American empire's global dimensions and the many ways they shaped the colonial encounter in the Southern Philippines.
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PHILIPPINES -- HISTORY -- AMERICAN PERIOD, 1898-1946