Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and BayonetsMatthew L McDowell
U.S. propaganda labeled resistance fighters opposed to American occupation “brigands” in the Philippines and “terrorists” in Iraq, while cheerleading media reduced the human dimension of both enemies to elicit pro-war support. The conquest of the Philippines was America’s first experiment with...
Changes that occurred later in the century provided a different gloss both to the idea of manifest destiny and to the meaning of mission. The new "manifest destiny" of the 1890s involved acquisition and control of an overseas empire. Although the older xenophobia and the civilizing mission remai...
Distinctive set of clothes worn to identify one's occupation, affiliation, or status. In this case it's clothes or equipment or accessories worn in order to satisfy a sexual fetish, and of course, to remove in order to have sex with another guy. Uniformed men accessible here have internatio...
leaders, whose troops controlled the entire archipelago except the capital city of Manila. By 1902 U.S. troops had defeated the insurgency, though sporadic fighting continued until 1906. The U.S. retained possession of the islands (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II) until ...
American Caesar: With John Huston, John Colicos, Douglas MacArthur. Explores the life and actions of one of America's military legends. Part 1 follows MacArthur from his days as a forgotten hero soldiering in the Philippines on the eve of Pearl Harbor to
“Voices from the Philippines,” written by Sergeant Major John W. Calloway, and printed in theRichmond Planeton 30 December 1899.Full textcourtesy of the US Library of Congress Chronicling America project. Because of this relatively sympathetic treatment, some Filipinos were eager to have all Ame...
The outbreak in May 1763 of Pontiac’s Rebellion(庞蒂亚克的叛乱), an American Indian uprising against Anglo-American occupation and expansion, reinforced the logic of this decision. Some older accounts claimed that Pontiac’s Rebellion prompted the decision to garrison 10,000 troops in North ...
12. Dewey and Wesley Merritt led a successful land and sea assault and occupation of Manila on Aug. 13, after the armistice had been signed. Results Peace was arranged by the Treaty of Paris signed Dec. 10, 1898 (ratified by the U.S. Senate, Feb. 6, 1899). The Spanish Empire was ...
society.The democracy development during the occupation period initiated several major political changes. According to John Dower’s book, these democratic changes can be summarized as follows. The emperor system was changed to constitutional democracy; The Diet, Japan’s new parliament, had the ...