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Policing America's empire : the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state / Alfred W. McCoy

By:

McCoy, Alfred W [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, [2011]Description: xviii, 659 pages : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789715506281

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

959.9031

Contents:

Part one. U. S. Colonial Police

Colonial coercion

Surveillance and scandal

Paramilitary pacification

Constabulary covert operation

Policing the tribal zone

American police in Manila

The Conley case

President Wilson's surveillance state

Part two. Philippine National Police

President Quezon's Commonwealth

Philippine Republic

Martial law terror

Unsheathing the sword

Ramos's supercops

Estrada's racketeering

Extrajudicial executions

Crucibles of counterinsurgency

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Filipiniana Section	Filipiniana	F 959.9031 M131p 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	133650d

Originally published in 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-636) and index.