Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Creighton Miller Mindanao & Muslim Studies

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Creighton Miller Mindanao & Muslim StudiesAmerican acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America's sense of innocence. He examines the roles of key actors the generals and presidents, the soldiers and senators in America's colonial adventure." The most thorough, balanced, and well written study to date of America's imperial adventure in

ISBN: 971542105-9

"The true story behind the exploits of the unit that was immortalized in the blockbuster 1945 movie They Were Expendable

An outstanding achievement

Giving Up Butterflies by Geraldine Kudaka

- The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week

the exploration of the largest river system of the island

I'm sure you will

Looming over this vast canvas of unforgettable characters is the ghost of Agnes – an “illegal” and cousin of Mimi’s who might have been murdered by her New Jersey employers

while their Indian mother and Filipino father eked out a living running a Chinese restaurant

a Guggenheim Fiction Fellowship

and bits of villainy or what could be regarded as outright treason

obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory