American Historical Review
Academic Articles
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Trans-Imperial Histories: Spanish Roots of the American Colonial State in the Philippines
by paul.kramerAn English-language version of “Historias Transimperiales.”
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Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and the Politics of Technocracy in the Early Twentieth Century United States
by paul.kramerIn Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas, eds, Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) This essay looks at American civil service reformers’ debates over the administration of U. S. colonies after 1898 and their understandings of colonialism’s impact on metropolitan…
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Historias transimperiales: Raíces españolas del estado colonial estadounidense en Filipinas
by paul.kramerIn Filipinas, Un País Entre Dos Imperios, María Dolores Elizalde y Josep M. Delgado, eds., (Barcelona: Bellaterra Edicions, 2011) This essay argues for the necessity of examining U. S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early 20th century as a self-conscious successor to Spanish colonial rule. While Americans consistently depicted…
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Is the World Our Campus? International Students and U.S. Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century
by paul.kramerThis essay argues for the study of international student migration to the United States as an element of U. S. international history, and presents a typology and chronology of student “exchange” since the late 19th century. It traces the emergence of four modes of student migration (missionary, colonial, self-strengthening, and corporate-internationalist), student migration’s geopoliticization, and a recent, neoliberal turn.
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In Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds, Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) This essay briefly summarizes the methodological approach and themes of The Blood of Government. It provides a definition of “transnational” history and employs this technique to illuminate…
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Anderson Review of Warwick Anderson’s Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
by paul.kramerBulletin of the History of Medicine (Summer 2008)
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Race-Making and Colonial Violence in the U.S. Empire: The Philippine-American War as Race War
by paul.kramerThis essay discusses racialization and colonial warfare as entangled processes during the Philippine-American War. Changing American visions of the Philippine population, and Filipino efforts to affect those visions, informed the shifting nature of U. S. combat; similarly, the dynamics of combat—especially guerrilla warfare—intensified Americans’ racialization of Filipino combatants and civilians.
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Introduction to Leon Wolff’s Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Tur
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Social History (February 2005) During the 1990s social scientists, journalists and policy-makers collaborated in the assembly ofthe powerful organizing concept of ‘globalization’. While theorizing on a global scale washardly new, ‘globalization’ was represented as both a revolutionary process and the name for anovel historical moment, one in which dense, fluid…