Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorLumba, Allan E. S.en
dc.coverage.countryPhilippinesen
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-29T17:39:38Zen
dc.date.available2022-09-29T17:39:38Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05en
dc.description.abstractIn Monetary Authorities, Allan E. S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. Lumba shows that colonial economic experts justified American imperial authority by claiming that Filipinos did not possess the racial capacities to properly manage money. Financial independence, then, became a key metric of racial capitalism by which Filipinos had to prove their ability to self-govern. At the same time, the colonial state used its monetary authority to police the economic activities of colonized subjects and to curb movements for decolonization. It later offered a conditional form of decolonization that left the Philippines reliant on U.S. financial institutions. By showing how imperial governance was entwined with the racialization and regulation of monetary systems in the Philippines, Lumba illuminates a key mechanism through which the United States securitized the imperial world order.en
dc.description.sponsorshipPublication of this book was supported by Virginia Tech through the TOME Open Monograph Initiative.en
dc.format.extent215 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/epub+zipen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1215/9781478022794en
dc.identifier.isbn9781478022794en
dc.identifier.isbn9781478092582en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/112033en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subject.lccDS685 .L86 2022en
dc.subject.lcshCapitalism – Philippinesen
dc.subject.lcshDecolonization—Philippinesen
dc.subject.lcshAnti-imperialist movements—Philippinesen
dc.subject.lcshColonization—Economic aspects—History—19th centuryen
dc.subject.lcshPhilippines—History— 1898–en
dc.subject.lcshPhilippines—Politics and government—1898–1935en
dc.subject.lcshPhilippines—Economic conditionsen
dc.subject.lcshPhilippines—Foreign economic relations—United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshUnited States—Foreign economic relations—Philippinesen
dc.titleMonetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippinesen
dc.typeBooken
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
978-1-4780-2279-4-web.pdf
Size:
12.87 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
PDF
Download
Name:
9781478022794.epub
Size:
999.72 KB
Format:
Electronic publishing
Description:
EPUB
Download

Collections

Scholarly Works, History