Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (Ateneo Edition) by Mark Rice Bookshop

Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (Ateneo Edition) by Mark Rice BookshopThe strongest force keeping the Philippines under American control in the early 20th century may have come from a camera. From 1901 to 1913, Dean Worcester amassed thousands of photographs of "savage" Filipinos. These were subsequently circulated throughout the United States in various articles, books, and lectures. By imposing his own interpretations on his photographs, Worcester changed the way an entire Western nation viewed our people. Published

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"The Trouble with Nick and other Profiles" is the author's second collection of personality sketches

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review essays

performing in front of packed theaters and admiring fans

By turns nostalgic and critical

she searches for happiness in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora

"This little volume is a valuable contribution to the lore that accumulates about every great city in the world--part social history

Catholics and Buddhists

Brilliant feminist sociological scholarship with theoretical sophistication

the Navy (Nimitz and King) proposes bypassing the islands and invading Formosa

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