{"product_id":"barangay-sixteenth-century-philippine-culture-and-society-by-william-henry-scott-copy","title":"AMERICAN IMPERIAL PASTORAL: THE ARCHITECTURE OF US COLONIALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES BY REBECCA TINIO MCKENNA","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1904, renowned American architect Daniel Burnham was tasked with designing spaces for the occupation government, aiming to project the ambitions and dominance of the regime through neo-classical formalism in the Pacific colony. The structures he created, particularly in Baguio as the summer capital, embodied the physical manifestation of American rule and its inherent contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn American Imperial Pastoral, Rebecca Tinio McKenna investigates the design, construction, and utilization of Baguio, revealing the physical infrastructure, labor systems, and sustaining mechanisms of the US's emerging empire—notably the dispossessions that enabled market expansion. Through this examination, she illustrates how colonial powers conducted market-making via state-building and conversely. While much scholarly attention has focused on the racial dimensions of US colonialism in the region, McKenna shifts emphasis toward capitalist practices and design philosophies—offering a nuanced and original perspective on the American occupation of the Philippines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA significant contribution to colonial Philippine history and comparative empire studies, this lucidly written and theoretically sophisticated work will resonate with historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars investigating the Philippines under US colonial rule, Baguio's history, and indigenous responses to colonialism across Southeast Asia and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beatrice Crisostomo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47972800069790,"sku":null,"price":575.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9729\/files\/aip-ritual.jpg?v=1784428463","url":"https:\/\/www.ritual.ph\/products\/barangay-sixteenth-century-philippine-culture-and-society-by-william-henry-scott-copy","provider":"ritual","version":"1.0","type":"link"}