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Moroland, 1899–1906
America’s First Attempt to Transform an Islamic Society
- Publisher
- Tumalo Creek Press
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 423
- ISBN
- 9780979517303
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
The first years of the American occupation of the Moro country, from Bates’s treaty with the Sultan of Sulu to Bud Dajo, told campaign by campaign from the army’s records.
Robert Fulton tells how the US Army came to govern the Moro lands after the Spanish-American War. At first the Americans worked through the traditional rulers and respected Islamic law. Later the aim shifted to remaking Moro society in an American image. Moro Province became a military-governed Islamic colony inside the largely Christian Philippine Islands. The Moros resisted what they saw as an attack on Islam and their way of life, and more than a decade of battles and expeditions followed.
Fulton built the book on research in the original army files. It covers the rivalry between Leonard Wood and John J. Pershing and the 1906 massacre at Bud Dajo on Jolo. Fulton concludes that the United States failed to pacify and transform the Moros largely because Wood abandoned a policy of accommodation with Moro leaders that Fulton links to Pershing.
A review by Robert Mihara of West Point questioned how the book uses its sources. A 2009 revised edition added 6 chapters and carried the story to 1920.
From mandirigma.org, muse.jhu.edu, bol.com.
HistoryColonial periodWar and conflict
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