Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and BayonetsMatthew L McDowell
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...
The scholar-diplomats George Bancroft and John Lothrop Motley had commented earlier on the role that racial stock had in assuring a nation's greatness. Both had been students in Germany. Granting his distaste for some aspects of Prussian militarism, Bancroft claimed that it would be the instrument...
Between the years 1899 and 1913 the United States of America wrote the darkest pages of its history. The invasion of the Philippines for no other reason than acquiring imperial possessions, prompted a fierce reaction of the Filipino people. 126,000 American soldiers were brought in to quell the...
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
The war was, in effect, over. Troops sent under Nelson A. Miles to Puerto Rico were occupying that island when they received word that an armistice had been signed on Aug. 12. Dewey and Wesley Merritt led a successful land and sea assault and occupation of Manila on Aug. 13, after ...
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 ...
After 40 years, life changed yet again at the onset of World War II and the subsequent Japanese occupation of our country. Today, for the fourth installment of our seriesMaking Philippine History More Interesting, we selected books that can give our children a peek at life during the two per...
1.Seven Years’ War 七年战争 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 betwe...
Still, there were plenty of ugly aspects to American rule in the Philippines, as you can see above. Occupation is always dirty. There was theMoro War, thewater cure, and theHowling Wildernessof Samar. And, of course, there were the double-standard economic policies of theinsularregime. The...