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100			_aMcCoy, Alfred W.
245		0	_aPolicing America's empire _bthe United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state
260			_aMadison _bUniversity of Wisconsin Press _c2009
300			_axviii, 759 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_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.
650			_aEspionage, American--Philippines--History--20th century.
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