Policing America's Empire

by McCoy, Alfred W.

• ISBN13: 9780299234140
• ISBN10: 0299234142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Through impressive research and penetrating analysis, Alfred W. McCoy reveals the hidden mechanisms of U.S. global power, focusing on the Philippines as a microcosm of worldwide trends. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to todayrs"s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from Americars"s first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence units anywhere under the American flag. This imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even after Washington freed its colony and won global power in 1945, it would intervene in the Philippines periodically for the next half-century-using the country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression. In trying to create a democracy in the Philippines, the United States unleashed profoundly undemocratic forces that persist to the present day.

Author Biography

Alfred W. McCoy is J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include The Politics of Heroin and A Question of Torture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xv
Prologue: Analogies of Empire	p. 3
Capillaries of Empire	p. 15
U.S. Colonial Police
Colonial Coercion	p. 59
Surveillance and Scandal	p. 94
Paramilitary Pacification	p. 126
Constabulary Covert Operations	p. 175
Policing the Tribal Zone	p. 206
American Police in Manila	p. 236
The Conley Case	p. 268
President Wilson's Surveillance State	p. 293
Philippine National Police
President Quezon's Commonwealth	p. 349
Philippine Republic	p. 372
Martial Law Terror	p. 397
Unsheathing the Sword	p. 433
Ramos's Supercops	p. 452
Estrada's Racketeering	p. 471
Extrajudicial Executions	p. 498
Crucibles of Counterinsurgency	p. 521
Notes	p. 541
Index	p. 637
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