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William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire

William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire

Burns, Adam D.

Hardcover

Series: Legacies of War

20th Century United States HistorySoutheast Asian HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1621905691
ISBN13: 9781621905691
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jul 7 2020
Pages: 189
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Born in Civil War-era Cincinnati in 1857, William Howard Taft rose rapidly through legal, judicial, and political ranks, graduating from Yale and becoming a judge while still in his twenties. In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to head a commission charged with preparing the Philippines for US-led civil government, setting the stage for Taft's involvement in US-Philippine relations and the development of his imperial vision across two decades. While biographies of Taft and histories of US-Philippine relations are easy to find, few works focus on Taft's vision for the Philippines that, despite a twenty-year crusade, would eventually fail. William Howard Taft and the Philippines fills this void in the scholarship, taking up Taft's vantage point on America's imperialist venture in the Philippine Islands between 1900 and 1921.

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