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Article: The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- November 1, 2008
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The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. By Paul A. Kramer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 538. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5653-6; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-2985-1.)
Paul A. Kramer has provided us with a formidable assessment of the intertwined nature of race and U.S. imperialism, drawing on the particular example of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. He focuses primarily on the first fifteen years of U.S. rule, but he pulls the threads of the story back into nineteenth-century Spanish rule and forward to the 1930s and the establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth. Although ...