The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines Book

"The Blood of Government" is one of the most important works relating to Philippine-American history. This work surveys the racial attitudes of Americans and Filipinos and the importance of race in building the American colonial state. This book focuses primarily on the American colonial state in the Philippines but surveys the American colonial adventure in the context of the wider imperial world at the turn of the twentieth century. "Blood of Government" further explores race and race relations in the emerging American-Philippine colonial state and how race was not directly imported into the Philippines from the US but developed due to the collaborative nature of the American colonial experiment. "Blood of Government" is, however, not for the casual reader and this work is very dense and a slog to read. For those deeply interested in the working of the American colonial state in the Philippines, and its imperil and racial context, this is a must read.