Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Alfred W. McCoy

Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies

Alfred W. McCoy

659 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today's war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America's first informati...

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