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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154283803321

Autore

McKenna Rebecca Tinio

Titolo

American Imperial Pastoral : The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines / / Rebecca Tinio McKenna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-226-41793-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, map

Disciplina

959.9/1

Soggetti

Igorot (Philippine people) - Philippines - Benguet (Province) - History

City planning - Philippines - Baguio - History

Baguio (Philippines) History

Philippines Colonization

Philippines Relations United States

United States Relations Philippines

Baguio (Philippines) Ethnic relations

Philippines History 1898-1946

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Cure for Philippinitis -- 2. Liberating Labor: The Road to Baguio -- 3. "A Hope of Something Unusual among Cities" -- 4. "Independencia in a Box" -- 5. Savage Hospitality -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No Little Plans," set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnham set out to convey the ambitions and the dominance of the regime, drawing on neo-classical formalism for the Pacific colony. The spaces he created, most notably in the summer capital of Baguio, gave physical form to American rule and its contradictions. In American Imperial Pastoral, Rebecca Tinio McKenna examines the design, construction, and use of Baguio, making visible the physical shape, labor, and sustaining practices of



the US's new empire-especially the dispossessions that underwrote market expansion. In the process, she demonstrates how colonialists conducted market-making through state-building and vice-versa. Where much has been made of the racial dynamics of US colonialism in the region, McKenna emphasizes capitalist practices and design ideals-giving us a fresh and nuanced understanding of the American occupation of the Philippines.