A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfare
Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. InBound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos.
As the US military expanded in Asia, American forces confronted their Pacific rivals from Philippine bases. And from the colonial-era Philippine Scouts to post-9/11 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Filipinos were crucial partners in the exercise of US power. Their service reshaped Philippine society and politics and brought thousands of Filipinos to America.
Telling the epic story of a century of conflict and migration,Bound by Waris a fresh, definitive portrait of this uneven partnership and the two nations it transformed.
is professor of history at MIT. Author of the award-winning
Uncle Sam Wants You, he is also a cocurator of The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919, a traveling exhibition that originated at The National WWI Museum and Memorial to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bound by Waris a pathbreaking, intimate, panoramic, and impressively binational case study of America's emergence as a Pacific power with the conquest of the Philippines in 1898, and its evolution thereafter, through war and peace, into the gargantuan global military establishment we know today.
John W. Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embracing Defeat Bound by Waris a tour de force. It shows how military service has bound the United States and the Philippines together from the formation oflcI
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