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Exploring the Origins of the Modern American Empire - David J. Silbey A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xvi + 254 pp. Introduction, illustrations, further reading, index. $26 (cloth), ISBN 10-0809071878. - Bartholomew H. Sparrow The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii + 300 pp. Introduction, bibliographical essay, index. $35 (cloth), ISBN 10-0700614814; $15 (paper), ISBN 10-0700614826.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Joseph A. Fry
Joseph A. Fry
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University of Nevada–Las Vegas
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 513 - 518
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2008

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References

1 Gould, Lewis L., The Spanish-American War and President McKinley (Lawrence, KS, 1982), 138Google Scholar; for the traditional portrayal of McKinley, see Fry, Joseph A., “William McKinley and the Coming of the Spanish-American War: A Study in the Besmirching and Redemption of an Historical Image,” Diplomatic History 3 (Winter 1977): 77–97CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Kramer, Paul A., The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (Chapel Hill, 2006)Google Scholar;Hoganson, Kristin L., Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (New Haven, 1998)Google Scholar.

3 In The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Chapel Hill, 1989)Google Scholarand The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Lawrence, KS, 2000), Brian McAllister Linn has provided an excellent account and analysis upon which Silbey builds regarding overall U.S. military policies and actions employed in defeating the AOL and the ensuing insurgency.