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Policing America's empire : the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state / Alfred W. McCoy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2011.Description: xviii, 659 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789715506281
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS 685  .M137 2011
Summary: Armed by its first informationrevolution. Washington pacified the Philippines after 1898 with pervasive policing. In the sixty years since its independence, the U.S. continued to use the country as a key laboratory for counterinsurgency. But techniques bred overseas could not be contained at this remote periphery of American power. From World War I to the War on Terror, new security methods have migrated homeward to honeycomb American society with spies and surveillance.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana DS 685 .M137 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA2012000141
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana DS 685 .M137 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000317260
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana DS 685 .M137 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000317263

Originally published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.

Armed by its first informationrevolution. Washington pacified the Philippines after 1898 with pervasive policing. In the sixty years since its independence, the U.S. continued to use the country as a key laboratory for counterinsurgency. But techniques bred overseas could not be contained at this remote periphery of American power. From World War I to the War on Terror, new security methods have migrated homeward to honeycomb American society with spies and surveillance.

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