This article explores how early American cinema and US imperialism are inextricably bound together in a thorough exploration of cinematic representations of the Philippines in US film both during and immediately after US colonization of the islands. The article carefully considers the significance of the...
The Seven Years’ War was a global military conflict between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time affecting North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines. The war was driven by the antagonism between Great Britain and the Bourbon...
Exactly. In 1907 Stephen Bonsal, a Black correspondent in the Philippines wrote: “While white soldiers, unfortunately, got on badly with the natives, the black soldiers got on much too well. . . . the Negro soldiers were in closer sympathy with the aims of the native populations than they...
This military strategic claim to Guam was downplayed in the rhetoric that the US Navy would use in its colonization. In US President William McKinley’s 1898 directive “Instructions for the Military Commander of the Island of Guam,” which authorized the seizure of Guam this was made clear ...
James Revels’ ancestor could have arrived on any ship, beginning with exploration and colonization in the early 1500s through the mid-1650s. By the time the chief bound the Indian boy who was given the English name James to Edward Revell, James’s Oceanic paternal ancestor could have been ...
ACS American Colonization Society ACS Accrediting Commission for Schools (Western Association of Schools & Colleges) ACS Approved Contractor Scheme (UK) ACS Advanced Communications Solutions (various locations) ACS American Conifer Society ACS Assessoria de Comunicação Social (Portuguese: Office of Soci...
Now a city of 150,000, Điện Biên Phủ’s name is synonymous with the 1954 siege and battle that put an end to the French colonization of Vietnam. After World War II, when Japan occupied Indochina, France failed to regain control of its lucrative opium trade in Vietnam’s nort...
But in New York, everything is wild. It bears the oldest marks of white colonization of any place I have ever lived; stone walls, like rivers, like arteries, pass information through the broken forests. Yet it doesn't feel entirely settled yet. Coyotes howl through the nights. There are...
nursing is what brought her parents to the United States. From Tuguegarao City, her family emigrated to Winston-Salem when she was 4 years old. Datingto the colonization of the Philippinesin the late 19th century, Filipinos make up the largest share of migrant nurses in the United States...
as unchallenged world hegemon. At the moment the U.S. has unparalleled military domination over the world's land masses, sea lanes, and air spaces, with great aspirations toward colonization of outer space, revealing (in Chalmers Johnson's words) "an imperial project that the Cold War obscured...