TY - BOOK AU - Ileto, Reynaldo Clemena. TI - Knowledge and pacification : : on the U.S. conquest and the writing of Philippine history / SN - 9789715507783 AV - DS 679 .I54 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Quezon City : PB - Ateneo De Manila University Press, KW - PHILIPPINES KW - HISTORY KW - 1897-1956 KW - HISTOGRAPHY KW - PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WAR KW - 1899-1902 KW - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT N1 - Includes notes, bibliography and index.; Acknowledgments.--Maps.--A shared history of wars.--The republic in southern Tagalog.--Mobilizing "people of the barrios".--Poblacion politics in a time of war.--The U.S. conquest.--Father and son in the embrace of uncle sam.--Friendship and forgetting.--The return of Andres Bonifacio.--History wars: Rizal in 1956.--Benevolent pacification.--Tutelage and anarchy.--The boss-mayor and his critics.--Appendix.--Endnotes.--Bibliography.--Index N2 - This book shows us how to think about the American century in the Philippines in another way. Colonial representations of the revolution and resistance to U.S. occupation have been contested quite effectively. But the bigger challenge, or rather pressing task, is to interrogate some basic notions that undergird our understanding of Philippine politics notions that owe their provenance to early attempts by U.S. officials and scholars to pacify the enemy ER -