Civilizational Imperatives

Oliver Charbonneau

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In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim South in the early twentieth century. Often referred to as Moroland, the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao were sites of intense US engagement and laboratories of colonial modernity during an age of global imperialism.Exploring the complex relationship between colonizer and colonized from the late nineteenth century until the eve of the Second World War, Charbonneau argues that American power in the Islamic Philippines rested upon a transformative vision of colonial rule. Civilization, protection, and instruction became watchwords for US military officers and civilian administrators, who enacted fantasies of racial reform among the diverse societies of the region. Violence saturated their efforts to remake indigenous politics and culture, embedding itself into governance strategies used across four decades. Although it took place on the edges of the Philippine colonial state, this fraught civilizing mission did not occur in isolation. It shared structural and ideological connections to US settler conquest in North America and also borrowed liberally from European and Islamic empires. These circuits of cultural, political, and institutional exchange-accessed by colonial and anticolonial actors alike-gave empire in the Southern Philippines its hybrid character.Civilizational Imperatives is a story of colonization and connection, reaching across nations and empires in its examination of a Southeast Asian space under US sovereignty. It presents an innovative new portrait of the American empire's global dimensions and the many ways they shaped the colonial encounter in the Southern Philippines.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• Diplomacy
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis
• Diplomatie (homonymie)

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501750731
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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Civilizational Imperatives

A VO LU M E I N T H E S E R I E S

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD founded by Mark Philip Bradley and Paul A. Kramer edited by Benjamin Coates, Emily ConroyKrutz, Paul A. Kramer, and Judy TzuChun Wu

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Civilizational Imperatives

Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World

Oliver Charbonneau

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Charbonneau, Oliver, 1984– author. Title: Civilizational imperatives : Americans, Moros, and the colonial world / Oliver Charbonneau. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The United States in the world | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020009191 (print) | LCCN 2020009192 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501750724 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501750731 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501750748 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Muslims—Philippines—History—20th century. | Imperialism—History—20th century. | Philippines—Colonization— History—20th century. | United States—Foreign relations— Philippines. | Philippines—Foreign relations—United States. Classification: LCC DS685 .C53 2020 (print) | LCC DS685 (ebook) | DDC 959.9/032—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009191 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009192

Cover photograph: John Park Finley, governor of Zamboanga, attending the Convention of Moros at the Moro Exchange at Taluksangay, May 15–17, 1911. Burton Norvell Harrison Family Papers. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

ForVictoria

Justbysayingthatsomethingwasso,theybelievedthatitwas.Iknow now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it. Laila Lalami,The Moor’s Account

Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Terminology and Transliteration

Introduction: Other Frontiers 1. Imagining the Moro: Racial and Spatial Fantasies in MindanaoSulu 2. Courtrooms, Clinics, and Colonies: Remaking the Southern Philippines 3. Civilizational Imperatives: Building Colonial Classrooms 4. Corrective Violence: On Fear, Massacre, and Punishment 5. Tropical Idylls: Maintaining Colonial Spaces and Bodies 6. Moros in America: Visiting the Metropole in Fact and Fiction 7. Imperial Interactivities: MindanaoSulu in a Connected World Conclusion: Colonial Remains

Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Figures

Map of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago Map of the Sulu Archipelago “Mindanao, Moro Country” Governor Frank W. Carpenter and Sultan Jamalul Kiram Moro girls’ school in Cotabato U.S. newspaper coverage of juramentado attacks Aftermath of Bud Dajo massacre U.S. Army officer’s collection of Moro weapons Moro village, World’s Fair, St. Louis A poster for George Ade’sThe Sultan of Sulu Map of colonized Southeast Asia Datu Piang and retinue John Finley and Moro leaders

11 12 42 55 77 99 108 134 148 161 175 183 193