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Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 44-66

Improving on the Civilising Mission?: Assumptions of United States Exceptionalism in the Colonisation of the Philippines

(1)  Adas, Michael a  

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EID: 84990925033     PISSN: 01651153     EISSN: 20412827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0165115300023500     Document Type: Article
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    • Harrison provided perhaps the most important exception in this regard, but see also Crow, America and the Philippines, 241–242.
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    • From a rather large literature on the history of the engineering profession in the United States in this period, perhaps the most insightful and broadly conceived remain Cleveland
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    • The fullest study of this prolonged agrarian crisis remains New York
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    • For samples of official stress on the central importance of market mechanisms in the ‘development’ of the Philippines, see Freeport
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