Week 3

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Week 3 w/c 1 August

The Phil-American War 1899-1903 (2)

Lecture:

Thursday 4 August: The Phil-American War

Lecturer:

Greg Bankoff

Seminar topic:

Thursday 4 August & Wednesday 10 August:

Were Filipinos freedom fighters or bandoleros (bandits)?

Required Readings:

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1900) The Filipino Martyrs A Story of the Crime of February 4, 1899 By An Eye-Witness. John Lane, The Bodley head, London and New York, pp.5-9, 154-194. NO ISBN

Quibuyen, Floro C. (1999) ‘Remaking Philippine History’. A Nation Aborted Rizal, American hegemony, and Philippine Nationalism. Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, pp.275-302. ISBN 9715503349

May, Glenn (1987) ‘Why the United States Won the Philippine-American War’. A Past Recovered. New Day, Quezon City, pp.150-170. ISBN 9711002604

Primary sources:

http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/philam-documents.html 
Documents on the Philippine-American War: treaties, proclamations and manifestos.

Recommended Readings:

Blout, James (1912) The American Occupation of the Philippines 1989-1912. Oriole Editions, New York

Constantino, Renato (1975) ‘Collaboration and Resistance (1-2)’. The Philippines: A Past Revisited. Tala Publishing Services, Quezon City, pp.231-280

Corpuz, Onofre (1989) the Roots of the Filipino Nation

Gates, John, ‘The Pacification of the Philippines’. The US Army and Irregular Warfare

http://www.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch3.html

Karnow, Stanley (1989) ‘Civilizing With a Krag’. In Our Image. America’s Empire in the Philippines. Ballantine Books, New York, pp.139-166.

May, Glenn (1987) Private Presher and Sergeant Vergara: The Underside of the Philippine-American War. A Past Recovered. New Day, Quezon City, pp.129-149.

Ochosa, Orlino (1995) Glory at the Gallows. Bandoleros. Outlawed Guerillas of the Philippine American War 1903-1907. New Day, Quezon City, pp.75-111.

Miller, Stuart (1982) “Benevolent Assimilation”. The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Quibuyen, Floro (1999) A Nation Aborted. Rizal, American Hegemony, and the Philippine Nationalism. Ateneo de Manila Press, Quezon City.

Scriven, George Percival, An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901, An On-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriven/diary1.html

Sioson, Ramon (1996) War for Independence: The View From a Small Town

http://www.bibingka.com/phg/cabugao/default.htm

Stanley, Peter, (1974) A Nation in the Making. The Philippines and the United States, 1899-1921, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Links:

http://home.netcom.com/~okonw/Jolo16.html
‘Jolo – chronology of Moro resistance’, 1878-1913. The Moro are the Muslim population of the Southern Philippines.

http://www.historyguy.com/PhilipineAmericanwar.html
This link provides a brief background on the Philippine-American War 1899-1902. It also lists a number of further links on the subject

http://www.phil-am-war.org/chrono.htm
Chronology of events leading to the Philippine-American War, going all the way back to the pre-Hispanic period.

http://www.philippineupdate.com/Bates.htm
‘The Bates-treaty’, in which the Sultan of Sulu recognised the sovereignty of the USA, which consequently brought the surrender of all Moro resistance to American rule.

http://www.boondocksnet.com/sctexts/paristre.html
‘Treaty of peace between the United States and Spain’, which ended the Spanish-American War and launched the U.S. into the twentieth century on a course of "imperial" overseas military expansion.

http://www.boondocksnet.com/sctexts/legacy1898.html
‘Republic or empire: the legacy of the 1898 treaty of Paris’, that ended the Spanish-American War and lead to American control of the Philippines.

http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/jolo.html 
‘Tausug resistance to American occupation 1998-1913’

http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/
‘The Philippine Revolution and Philippine-American War’, an exploration of the enduring cultural and political impacts of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. It includes numerous historical texts, essays, photographs, political cartoons, and other illustrations placed online at this site and links to materials at other sites across the Web.

http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/War/Nineteenth_Century/Spanish-American_War/
The site provides a great number of links on the Spanish-American War.

Chronology for the Philippine Islands and Guam in the Spanish-American War, including hyperlinks.

http://www.phil-amwar.org/institution.htm#america's%20first%20war%20for%20humanity

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronphil.html
Institutionalisation of the Philippine ‘insurrection’: the downplaying of the Philippine-American War by the Americans.