Civilizational imperatives [electronic resource] : Americans, Moros, and the colonial world / Oliver Charbonneau.

"This book reveals the little-known story of how the United States colonized and governed Southeast Asian Muslim territories in the early twentieth century"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Charbonneau, Oliver, 1984- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:The United States in the world
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Variant Title:
Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Other frontiers
  • Imagining the Moro: racial and spatial fantasies in Mindanao-Sulu
  • Courtrooms, clinics, and colonies: remaking the southern Philippines
  • Civilizational imperatives: building colonial classrooms
  • Corrective violence: on fear, massacre, and punishment
  • Tropical idylls: maintaining colonial spaces and bodies
  • Moros in America: visiting the metropole in fact and fiction
  • Imperial interactivities: Mindanao-Sulu in a connected world
  • Colonial remains.