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American imperial pastoral : the architecture of US colonialism in the Philippines

Title
American imperial pastoral : the architecture of US colonialism in the Philippines / Rebecca Tinio McKenna.
Author
McKenna, Rebecca Tinio
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Summary
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 this work, Rebecca Tinio McKenna examines the design, construction, and use of Baguio, making visible the physical shape, labour, 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.
Subject
  • Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912
  • Igorot (Philippine people) > Philippines > Benguet (Province) > History
  • City planning > Philippines > Baguio > History
  • Baguio (Philippines) > History
  • Philippines > Colonization
  • Philippines > Foreign relations > United States
  • United States > Foreign relations > Philippines
  • Baguio (Philippines) > Ethnic relations
  • Philippines > History > 1898-1946
Note
  • Previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience (note)
  • Specialized.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2017).
ISBN
9780226417936
OCLC
EDZ0001621517
Author
McKenna, Rebecca Tinio, author.
Title
American imperial pastoral : the architecture of US colonialism in the Philippines / Rebecca Tinio McKenna.
Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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