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Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903

Author(s): Stuart Creighton Miller

Location(s): The Philippines

Genre(s): Historical

Era(s): Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries

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American acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America’s sense of innocence.

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An excellent telling of a period that most Americans and Filipinos know little or nothing about. With America’s new ownership of the Philippines, America was drawn into a second conflict once the Spanish were routed....

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