
By Julian Go
ISBN-10: 0822342111
ISBN-13: 9780822342113
ISBN-10: 0822342294
ISBN-13: 9780822342298
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an exam of the way those efforts to supply the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a realistic schooling in self-government performed out at the flooring within the early years of yankee colonial rule, from 1898 until eventually 1912. it's the first systematic comparative research of those early routines in American imperial strength. The sociologist Julian move unravels how American gurus used “culture” as either a device and a aim of rule, and the way the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite obtained, creatively engaged, and infrequently silently subverted the american citizens’ ostensibly benign intentions. instead of discovering that the try and transplant American-style democracy resulted in incommensurable “culture clashes,” cross assesses advanced techniques of cultural lodging and transformation. by way of combining wealthy old element with broader theories of that means, tradition, and colonialism, he presents an cutting edge research of the hidden intersections of political energy and cultural meaning-making in America’s earliest abroad empire.
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