Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism

by Tom Sykes

The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788318315
• ISBN13: 9781788318310
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"