Dissolving the colonial bond : American Ambassadors to the Philippines, 19476-1984
- x, 402 pages
Includes bibliographical references.
Scene and setting : Mcnutt : proconsular ambassador -- Cowen : Perpetual motion -- Spruance : The glacial admiral -- Bohlen : exiled soviet expert -- Hickerson : by the book -- Stevenson : crusader for camelot -- Blair : two of the beautiful people -- Williams : a saintly presence -- Byroade : the king and I -- Sullivan : solo, not obbligato, in manila -- Newsome and murphy : two arabists in manila -- Amacost : scholar in residence -- Decolonization and the collective profile : The process of decolonization -- Comparisons and parameters -- Performance evaluation -- Miscellany.
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Ambassadors--United States--Biography Ambassadors--Philippines--Biography United States--Foreign relations--Philippines