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[[File:War_of_Frontier_and_Empire.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809096617/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809096617&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2367c7c498fb24e696d01decee714593 A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902]</i> by David Silbey]]__NOTOC__

David Silbey''This article was originally published on s <i>[httphttps://videriwww.amazon.orgcom/gp/index.phpproduct/0809096617/ref=as_li_tl?titleie=A_War_of_Frontier_and_EmpireUTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809096617&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2367c7c498fb24e696d01decee714593 A War of Frontier and Empire:_The_Philippine-American_WarThe Philippine American War]</i> is a narrative history of the complexity and shifting definitions of the war between the U.S. and the Philippines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Silbey weaves the threads of impact together, arguing that for the U.S.,_1899-1902| Videri“It was a war that brought together the dominant American experience….org] the chaotic and is republished here defining expansion westward, with their permissiona new…and uncomfortable imperial ambition” (xiii). For the Philippines, the war resulted in a culturally and socially fractured collection of islands becoming a “self-conceived nation” via a shared experience of revolution, war and insurgency.''

David Silbey's <i>A War of Frontier Empire</i> is a narrative history of the complexity and shifting definitions of the war between the U.S. and the Philippines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Silbey weaves the threads of impact together, arguing that for the U.S., “It was a war that brought together the dominant American experience….the chaotic and defining expansion westward, with a new…and uncomfortable imperial ambition” (xiii). For the Philippines, the war resulted in a culturally and socially fractured collection of islands becoming a “self-conceived nation” via a shared experience of revolution, war and insurgency.  Yet Silbey is careful to not label the conflict as just an insurgency, or a larger war, or just a revolution. Rather, he describes three distinct conflicts each with their own characterization and description. The first was the war between the Spanish and the allied U.S. and Filipino forces. The second was a conventional war between the U.S. Army and Navy and the Philippine Republic’s Army of Liberation. The third was a guerilla war fought between the U.S. forces and insurgent and disparate alliances of groups broken off from the Army of Liberation and elsewhere.

In the Philippines, Sibley shows how U.S. political and military forces vied for power and control in the figures of MacArthur and Taft. Ultimately, he concludes the Filipinos themselves figured out how to adjust to the new reality, and the war came to represent a “nationalist totem” (210) that helped to unify them. He is also careful to conclude that it was not a total war by the U.S. on the Philippines – the Filipino side had a number of some critical victories and advantages that softened their attitudes and led to an acceptance of U.S. power. Silbey describes this as a “cross-roads” “crossroads” in which the shifting threads of defeat, unification, and imperialism reshaped both U.S. power and the Philippines as a nation in the twentieth century.  [http{{MediaWiki://videri.org/index.php?title=Guide_to_the_Literature Check out other great articles at Videri.org.] AmNative}}