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Macarthur Highway & Other Relics/america
Joseph P. Mccallus
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Description for Macarthur Highway & Other Relics/america
Hardback. It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains. In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Num Pages: 380 pages, 17 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 708.
It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.
In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. While following MacArthur’s footsteps, he provides a historical and geographical account of this iconic soldier’s military career, accompanied by a description of the contemporary Philippine landscape. McCallus uses the past and the present to ... Read more
It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.
In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. While following MacArthur’s footsteps, he provides a historical and geographical account of this iconic soldier’s military career, accompanied by a description of the contemporary Philippine landscape. McCallus uses the past and the present to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597974974
SKU
V9781597974974
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Ref
99-15
About Joseph P. Mccallus
Joseph P. McCallus has conducted academic research in the Philippines since 1986. He is the author of American Exiles in the Philippines, 1941-1996: A Collected Oral Narrative (1999), a study of the American expatriate community; and edited and annotated Gentleman Soldier: John Clifford Brown and the Philippine-American War (2003). He has published journal articles dedicated to Philippine studies, particularly the ... Read more
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