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Author:   Diana Jean S. Martinez
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9781478029014

ISBN 10:   1478029013
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   12 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The “Master Material” and the “Master Race” 31 2. Stability: The Foundations of US Empire 49 3. Salubrity: Cholera and the “Housing Question” in the Tropical Colony 65 4. Reproducibility: The Burnham Plan and the Architecture of an “Efficient Machine” 79 5. Scalability: Altering the Archipelagic Interior 103 6. Liquidity: An Interlude on Portland Cement 121 7. Artifice: The “Bastard” Material and a Legitimation Crisis 131 8. Plasticity: Constructing Race, Representing the Nation 151 9. Strength: Defensive Architectures and Manila’s Destruction 171 10. Reconstruction: From Colonial Project to “Foreign Aid” 193 Afterword 205 Notes 213 Bibliography 247 Index

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""Diana Jean S. Martinez brilliantly details the misadventures of colonizers in the Philippines who found in concrete a material that perfectly expressed their bombast and obliviousness to culture or climate. Heavy, brittle, and inert, concrete obligingly took the shape of whiteness and ensured that tilted economic playing fields and other patterns of harm will continue into the future.""--Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor Architecture, Yale University ""In this brilliant book, Diana Jean S. Martinez casts the architectural logic of the American empire in an entirely new light, stressing how it differed from its Spanish predecessor while drawing useful comparisons to the urbanizing projects of the US mainland. Martinez's enlightening approach to the infrastructure of empire fills many holes in our knowledge of the US colonization of the Philippines and shows how the landscape of empire would be unimaginable and unrealizable without the use of concrete.""--Vicente L. Rafael, author of ""Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte""

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Diana Jean S. Martinez is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University.

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