In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines "in our image," an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.
But I can't get over the number of demonstrably false statements Mr Karnow makes... Just from my notes in the first two chapters, that "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" (written 1973) is a civil war ballad, that the Philippine trench is the deepest point on earth, and that the Philippines, a volcanic archipelago, somehow broke off continental Asia. Some of her experiences we almost identical to mine. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. The book is of course his interpretation of US/Filipino history and so one would expect it to have his personal slant but I would have been appreciative if it had been inserted less forcefully so as to not distract me from the narrative. Briskly-paced and engaging, "In Our Image" won the 1990 Pulitzer-prize for history and presents a balanced, yet sobering perspective on America's only traditional colonial experience.
Above all, its brilliant descriptions and analysis of this important chapter in American history holds lessons for the present and future. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. After graduating, he sailed for France intending to spend the summer, but he stayed for a decade. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. “This,” he said, “is a family evening.”Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average.
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Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. List Price: CDN$ 40.00; You Save: CDN$ 8.12 (20%) + CDN$ 6.49 shipping. A great read on the U.S/Filipino relationship going back to 1898.
In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines “in our image,” an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. That is the little known war America fought to put down the Philippine independence insurgency that followed closely on the heels of the Spanish-American War, which is when we acquired the Philippines. The Philippines arguably constituted the United States' sole exercise in large scale colonialism, yet from the start it was beset with two painful contradictions: firstly, between America's maintenance of overseas territories and her traditions of limited government and isolation from foreign entanglements; secondly, between her stated desire, genuine at least in some quarters, to shepherd the Philippines towards authentic independence as rapidly as possible, and an emergent strain of crony corporatism within the US that saw the Philippines as a virgin market ripe for exploitation through restrictive trade arrangements that would engender economic dependency, entrench the old feudalist order and shackle growth. I was looking for a book about the Philippine-American War. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines is a 1989 book by American journalist Stanley Karnow, published by Random House. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
No Kindle device required. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I found this book instead, which is much broader in scope. From the valiant death of Ferdinand Magellan in the azure surf of Mactan in 1521 to the fall of Ferdinand Marcos at the hands of Cory Aquino and a disillusioned Reagan administration in 1986, Stanley Karnow, the venerable Asian correspondent for the Washington Post, traces the arc of the Philippines' long, tumultuous relationship with the West.