He tracks President McKinley's decision to commit troops and fulfill a divinely inspired injunction to "uplift and civilize" despite the protests of many Americans. In A War of Frontier and Empire, Silbey traces the rise and fall of President Emilio Aguinaldo, as Aguinaldo tries to liberate the Philippines from colonial rule only to fail, devastatingly, before a relentless American army. Played out over three distinct conflicts-one fought between the Spanish and the allied United States and Filipino forces one fought between the United States and the Philippine Army of Liberation and one fought between occupying American troops and an insurgent alliance of often divided Filipinos-the war marked America's first steps as a global power and produced a wealth of lessons learned and forgotten. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war.
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