Policing America's empire (Record no. 4565)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780299234140
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 959.903MCC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McCoy, Alfred W.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Policing America's empire
Remainder of title the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Madison
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Wisconsin Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 759 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today?s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America?s first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence units anywhere under the American flag. In Policing America?s Empire Alfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even after Washington freed its colony and won global power in 1945, it would intervene in the Philippines periodically for the next half-century?using the country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression. In trying to create a democracy in the Philippines, the United States unleashed profoundly undemocratic forces that persist to the present day.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Espionage, American--Philippines--History--20th century.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   959.903MCC 004622 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book