000 01453nam a2200253Ia 4500
001 206587
003 0000000000
005 20211104043333.0
008 090313s2011 wiua b s001 0 eng c
010 _a2009010253
020 _a9789715506281
050 _aDS 685
_b.M137 2011
100 _aMcCoy, Alfred W.
_930220
245 0 _aPolicing America's empire :
_bthe United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state /
_cAlfred W. McCoy.
260 _aQuezon City :
_bAteneo de Manila University Press,
_cc2011.
300 _axviii, 659 p. :
_bill.
_c23 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.
520 _aArmed 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.
650 _aEspionage, American
_zPhilippines
_9113096
942 _cFIL
999 _c78996
_d78996