01693nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200150007610000210009124501060011226000490021830000340026750000510030152009840035265000610133699900150139795200990141220250117103715.0250117s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780299234140  a959.903MCC  aMcCoy, Alfred W. 0aPolicing America's empirebthe United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state  aMadisonbUniversity of Wisconsin Pressc2009  axviii, 759 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aAt 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.  aEspionage, American--Philippines--History--20th century.  c4565d4565  00104070aU001bU001d2025-01-17l0o959.903MCCp004622r2025-01-31 00:00:00w2025-01-17yBK