The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions


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Murat Halstead (1829-1908) was a nineteenth century American journalist, editor and author. He studied law and graduated from Farmer's college in 1851, then worked on the weekly paper Columbian and Great West. In 1865 he became the editor of the Commercial. Then he moved to New York City where he published stories in the Cosmopolitan Monthly and served as an editor for the Brooklyn Standard Union. His works include: Life and Distinguished Services of Hon. William McKinley and the Great Issues of 1896 (1896), The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions (1898), The Story of Cuba: Her Struggles for Liberty (1898), Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian Canals and the Problem of Expansion (1899), The Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier to Manila, Galveston: The Horrors of a Stricken City (1900), Briton and Boer in South Africa (1900), Aguinaldo and His Captor (1901) and The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Fifth President of the United States (1902).













The Ruling Elite


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The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln's revolutionary war, supported by Marx and Engels, caused at least 618,222 and perhaps as many as 700,000 deaths, including about 50,000 Confederate civilians. Soldiers who were fighting, dying and killing during that war were in training for future wars. If Americans could kill fellow citizens, then they would use force against foreign citizens, in behalf of the government. That war foreshadowed the devastating global warfare that followed with the Spanish American War, two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War and the current wars in the Middle East. They do not include the bombings in the Baltic and elsewhere or the CIA's covert warfare wherein millions of people died. In the First World War, soldiers killed 9,911,000 people in action, and wounded 21,219,500 people, while 7,750,000 people were missing in action for a total of 38, 880,500. In the Second World War, there were over 24,000,000 military deaths and 49,000,000 civilian deaths totaling 73,000,000 deaths, not including the number of wounded or missing. That is 82,911,000 deaths in two world wars. The real question is WHY?







The Story of the Philippines


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Title: The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including The Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Author: Murat Halstead




Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific


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Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region.