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:The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
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This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 2008-08-01. It has received 175 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Empire & Government.read more
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‘These people know about us’: A Reconsideration of Greater Syrian Attitudes Towards the United States in the First World War Era
TL;DR: This paper cast a sceptical eye on the seemingly glowing reputation of the United States among the elites of Greater Syria during the First World War era, arguing that although this reputation was based on genuine appreciation of good deeds performed by Americans in the region, it was also based on a mistaken impression of the nature of America's global role in this era and was most likely not as emphatic as it sometimes appears in the historical record.
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“Transvaal Spectacles”: South African Visions at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
TL;DR: In 1904, several hundred men, women, and children sailed from Cape Town to the United States to perform at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where they recreated scenes of South African life and reenacted battles from the South African War of 1899-1902 for the amusement of American and international audiences.
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Underside of Independence Politics: Filipino Reactions to Anti-Filipino Riots in the United States
TL;DR: The authors examines the historical implications of Philippine independence politics in the first half of the 1930s and looks into the reactions of Filipino elites toward the grave plight of Filipino migrants in the United States and the anti-Filipino riots there.
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Race Worlds: Discrimination, American-Style, in the Middle East
TL;DR: In this paper, a group of workers at an ARAMCO oil camp in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, walked off the job, asking for increased benefits and better working conditions, but they also demanded redress on a more volatile issue: the systematic discrimination against non-Americans by management and the dismissive, racist treatment of Arabs by U.S. employees.
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The Quest for Music's origin at the St. Louis World's Fair: Frances Densmore and the Racialization of Music
TL;DR: In the summer of 1904, anthropologist Albert Ernest Jenks wrote to the president of the Carnegie Institute asking for money to fund a young American musicologist named Frances Densmore who had already spent a week studying the music of the "wild people" who inhabited the St. Louis World's Fair's Philippine Reservation, of which Jenks was superintendent as mentioned in this paper.
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Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
Marilyn Lake,Henry Reynolds +1 more
American Mirror: The United States And The Empire Of Brazil In The Age Of Emancipation
TL;DR: Hahn et al. as mentioned in this paper traced the triumph of free labor in the two largest slave societies of the nineteenth-century western world: the United States and Brazil, and concluded that free labor had strengthened capitalism in Brazil and United States, making American industrialists and Brazilian planters more powerful than ever before.
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TL;DR: The American West and the World as mentioned in this paper provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas.
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Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific
Hyaeweol Choi,Margaret Jolly +1 more
Unfading Halo: The Untold Progressivism of Elihu Root
TL;DR: Little and Kerstetter as discussed by the authors uncovered the rather unlikely progressive credentials of a highly influential lawyer, diplomat, and statesman, Elihu Root, who represented a minority of internationally progressive lawyer-diplomats who sought to bring order to the interactions of states, reduce global conflicts and introduce worldwide institutions comprised of more nations than ever before.
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