Orientalism and the Study of Philippine Politics

This essay was first presented at the University of Hawaii in October 1997 as a public lecture while the author held the John A. Burns Professorial Chair in History. It was revised for the symposium "After the American Century? 1898-1998/' sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan, 15 September 1998. The three Burns Chair lectures by lIeto were published as Knowing America's Colony: A Hundred Years from the Philippine War (Occasional Papers Series, Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1999) .