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Author:
Woods, Colleen, 1980- author.
Title:
Freedom incorporated : anticommunism and Philippine independence in the age of decolonization / Colleen Woods.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
ix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Anti-communist movements--Philippines.
Anti-imperialist movements--Philippines.
Decolonization--Philippines.
Postcolonialism--Philippines.
Philippines--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--Philippines.
Philippines--Foreign relations--United States.
Anti-communist movements.
Anti-imperialist movements.
Decolonization.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Postcolonialism.
Philippines.
United States.
1900-1999
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : A Decolonized Empire -- An Amazing Record of Red Plotting : Policing Radical and Racial Boundaries in the Colonial Philippines -- State Violence and the Problem of Political Legitimacy : WWII, Philippine Independence, and the Hukbalahap -- The Anti-Communist International : The Philippine Front and Global Anticommunist Warfare -- Efficient, Honest, and Democratic : US Foreign Aid, Public Administration, and the Campaign Against Corruption -- A Dirty, Half-Hidden War : The CIA and US-Philippine Covert Operations in Southeast Asia -- Epilogue : A Friendship Written in Blood.
Summary:
"Freedom Incorporated tells the story of American and Filipino anticommunists who sought to turn the Philippines into a laboratory for exportable models of decolonization, postcolonial statehood, and anticommunist warfare"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The United States in the World
ISBN:
1501749137
9781501749131
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1120784644
LCCN:
2019047028
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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