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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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