American Empire and the Politics of Meaning - 9780822342298
Un libro in lingua di Julian Go edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2008
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American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used “culture” as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans' ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable “culture clashes,” Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America's earliest overseas empire.
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- Titolo del Libro in lingua: American Empire and the Politics of Meaning
- Sottotitolo: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Julian Go
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Aprile '08
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Elite (Social sciences) Philippines History Elite (Social sciences) Puerto Rico History Political culture Philippines History
- Pagine: 377
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822342294
- EAN-13: 9780822342298