Screen LibraryEmpire's proxy：American literature and U.S. imperialism in the Philippines
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New York University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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America and the long 19th century |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 235 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
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9780814794760 (hc : alk. paper) 0814794769 (hc : alk. paper) 9780814794777 (pbk.) 0814794777 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780814794784 (e-Book) 0814794785 (e-Book) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Call Number: | I712.06/W513 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-228) and index. Educated subjects: literary production, colonial expansion, and the pedagogical public sphere -- The alchemy of English: colonial state-building and the imperial origins of American literary study -- Empire's proxy: literary study as benevolent discipli In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley's project of "benevolent assimilation," they established a |