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Mandate in Moroland
The American Government of Muslim Filipinos, 1899–1920
- Year
- 1977New Day Publishers, 1983
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 411
- ISBN
- 9789711001018
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
How the United States ruled the Moro Province and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, from the Bates Treaty to the start of Filipinization, from the records of the men who governed. Reprinted by New Day in 1983.
This book describes and judges American rule over the Muslims of Mindanao and Sulu from 1899 to 1920. It runs from the first military government, through the Moro Province under Leonard Wood, Tasker Bliss and John Pershing, to Frank Carpenter's civil Department of Mindanao and Sulu from 1914 to 1920. It covers the military, administrative, educational and social sides of American policy and compares it with Spanish policy.
Peter Gowing was an American who joined the faculty of Silliman University in 1960. The book revises his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University and draws on records in the Library of Congress and the US National Archives.
In his foreword, Cesar Adib Majul sums up its main conclusion: the Americans did not fulfil their mandate. The Moros were not prepared to govern themselves when Christian Filipinos took over the Muslim provinces in 1920, and distrust between Muslims and Christians remained.
From ac.upd.edu.ph, ac.upd.edu.ph.
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