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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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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Originally published in 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

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

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

Gift; Von Totanes; February 21, 2025; 133650d.

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