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Civilizational Imperatives is one of the most compelling accounts of the US colonization of Moro peoples. It is a vital contribution to our understanding of the authoritarian pretentions and practical limits of the US empire and is especially prescient in its study of the first Muslim polity that Americans sought to control. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *

"Civilizational Imperatives is one of the most compelling accounts of the US colonization of Moro peoples. It is a vital contribution to our understanding of the authoritarian pretentions and practical limits of the US empire and is especially prescient in its study of the first Muslim polity that Americans sought to control. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS * Civilizational Imperatives is a much-needed work that contributes to the fields of U.S. empire, U.S. foreign relations, Southeast Asian Studies, and religious studies. The attention to the transimperial is long awaited, and anyone interested in the longer genealogical history of U.S.-Muslim relations and the ""war on terror"" should read this book. * H-Diplo * Civilizational Imperatives is a welcome addition to the relatively sparse literature on U.S. imperial rule in the southern Philippines, an episode in twentieth-century American history that is too often ignored. A well-crafted reconsideration of the exceptionalism that often still characterizes histories of U.S. imperialism. * Philippine Studies * Oliver Charbonneau offers a valuable distillation of the U.S. encounter, if that is the right word, with the Southern Philippines and its then-majority Muslim population. The book evokes the sense of a period that was hardly one of reluctant trusteeship, but rather of muscular Christianity backed up by all the weapons at the undeclared empire's disposal. * Diplomatic History *"

Civilizational Imperatives is one of the most compelling accounts of the US colonization of Moro peoples. It is a vital contribution to our understanding of the authoritarian pretentions and practical limits of the US empire and is especially prescient in its study of the first Muslim polity that Americans sought to control. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS * Civilizational Imperatives is a much-needed work that contributes to the fields of U.S. empire, U.S. foreign relations, Southeast Asian Studies, and religious studies. The attention to the transimperial is long awaited, and anyone interested in the longer genealogical history of U.S.-Muslim relations and the ""war on terror"" should read this book. * H-Diplo * Civilizational Imperatives is a welcome addition to the relatively sparse literature on U.S. imperial rule in the southern Philippines, an episode in twentieth-century American history that is too often ignored. A well-crafted reconsideration of the exceptionalism that often still characterizes histories of U.S. imperialism. * Philippine Studies * Oliver Charbonneau offers a valuable distillation of the U.S. encounter, if that is the right word, with the Southern Philippines and its then-majority Muslim population. The book evokes the sense of a period that was hardly one of reluctant trusteeship, but rather of muscular Christianity backed up by all the weapons at the undeclared empire's disposal. * Diplomatic History *

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Oliver Charbonneau is Lecturer in American History at the University of Glasgow. Follow him on X @olaferr.

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