Philippines: US Colonial Period (1898-1946)
(see also Spanish-American War, Philippines, Philippines: Muslim South, Philippines: Tribal Peoples, & Filipino-American History, Life & Values)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Brown Man's Burden. Luis H. Francia, Village Voice (1/29/03).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
McCoy, Alfred. "Sugar barons: formation of a native planter class in the colonial Philippines," Journal of Peasant Studies 193-4 (4-7/92):125-46.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bain, David H. Sitting in Darkness. Americans in the Philippines (NY, 1984).
Brands, H.W. Bound to Empire: The US & the Philippines (NY: Oxford, 1992).
Feuer, A.B. America at War: The Philippines, 1898-1913 (Westport CT: Praeger, 2002).
Go, Julian & Anne L. Foster (eds.) The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Durham NC: Duke, 2003).
Hedman, Eva-Lotta E. & John Sidel. Philippine Politics & Society in the 20th C.: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (NY: Routledge, 2001).
Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution & Slavery under the Japanese Military (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
Ileto, Reynaldo Clemeña. Knowing America's Colony: A Hundred Years from the Philippine War (Honolulu: U. of Hawai'i, 1999).
José, Ricardo Trota. The Philippine Army, 1935-1942 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila, 1992).
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (NY: Ballantine, 1990).
Linn, Brian McAllister. The US Army & Counter-Insurgency in the Phillipine War, 1899-1902 (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1989).
__________. The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Lawrence: U. of Kansas, 2000).
Miller, Stuart Creighton. "Benevolent Assimilation": The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (New Haven: Yale, 1983).
Mojares, Resil B. The Man Who Would Be President: Sergio Osmeña & Philippine Politics (Cebu City: Maria Cacao, 1986).
Paredes, Ruby R. (ed.) Philippine Colonial Democracy (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila, 1989).
Salman, Michael. The Embarrassment of Slavery. Controversies over Bondage & Nationalism in the American Philippines, 1896-1916 (Berkeley: U. California, 2002).
Schirmer, Daniel B. & Stephen R. Shalom (eds.) The Philippines Reader. A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, & Resistance (Boston, 1987).
Stanley, Peter W. (ed.) Reappraising an Empire: New Perspectives on Philippine-American History (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1984).
Zwick, Jim (ed.) Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the US-Philippine War (Syracuse NY: U. of Syracuse, 1992).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"This Bloody, Blundering Business: or, The Price of Empire" [1975], by Tricontinental Film, 30m. From Cinema Guild.