Project description
British influence on US colonialism in the Philippines
During the first decades of US colonial rule in the Philippines (1898-1916), Britons influenced American governance to protect their interests, aided by the Anglophone press in key ports such as Hong Kong and Rangoon. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SoOP project will analyse Anglophone Asian media alongside archives from both the communities it represented and the American colonial elites who received them. It will clarify how influential British communities in Asia shaped the colonial rule of another empire and examine the impact of Britons on Filipino elites. Specifically, the project will investigate whether prominent Filipino leaders (some of whom were exiled in British ports) considered British opinions when strategising against the US presence in the Philippines.
Objective
This project delves into the British influence on the US colonial rule in the Philippines (1898-1916). It studies how Britons in the archipelago and nearby Asian colonial posts swayed the local US rule to protect their interests in the islands. The project hypothesizes they shared advice on the best forms to govern the Philippines through diplomatic and commercial lobbying and the Anglophone press published in ports like Hong Kong, Rangoon, or Penang—which, as recent historiography has demonstrated, constantly flowed around Asian ports. All this information defended the establishment of a protectorate that granted Filipinos some degree of selfgovernment and the preservation of Philippine markets open for commerce. Through an analysis of the Anglophone Asian media, the archives of the people whose interests they represented, and the archives of the American colonial elites that received them, this project will elucidate how these powerful British communities in Asia conditioned another empire’s colonial rule, building upon recent developments in transimperial history. Also, this research explores the influence Britons exercised over Filipino elites. It inquires whether influential Filipino political leaders—some of whom had been exiled to British ports like Hong Kong—also considered British opinions when strategizing the best way to face the US presence in the archipelago. Moreover, it will explore how they used these nearby British media, uncensored by the US authorities, to attack the US administration in the islands, knowing that its content could arrive there. More broadly, this project proposes to understand the Southeast Asian Public spheres, like that of the Philippines and nearby ports, as connected spaces of debate, where citizens of alien nations and colonized subjects without political power could express their points of view and influence those who did have authority.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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28006 Madrid
Spain
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