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Empire: World History
It was mentioned in passing as a book which focused on the American colonisation of the Philippines, which attempted to gain Filipino loyalty via education and military force.
there's a book about this from many decades ago called Schoolbooks and Crags, crags refers to the guns but school books is the carrot right and so the promise of the United States is we will bring civ...
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Episode: 169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Phi...
It was mentioned in passing as a book which focused on the American colonisation of the Philippines, which attempted to gain Filipino loyalty via education and military force.
there's a book about this from many decades ago called Schoolbooks and Crags, crags refers to the guns but school books is the carrot right and so the promise of the United States is we will bring civilisation and the specific form that promise takes is we'll set up schools you can send your kids to schools they'll learn english but they'll learn you know all kinds of other things too