Main entry:

Martinez, Diana Jean S., 1979- author.

Title & Author:

Concrete colonialism : architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines / Diana Jean S. Martinez.

Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2025.

Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
The "Master Material" and the "Master Race" -- Stability: The Foundations of US Empire -- Salubrity: Cholera and the "Housing Question" in the Tropical Colony -- Reproducibility: The Burnham Plan and the Architecture of an "Efficient Machine" -- Scalability: Altering the Archipelagic Interior -- Liquidity: An Interlude on Portland Cement -- Artifice: The "Bastard" Material and a Legitimation Crisis -- Plasticity: Constructing Race, Representing the Nation -- Strength: Defensive Architectures and Manila's Destruction -- Reconstruction: From Colonial Project to "Foreign Aid"

Summary:

"Concrete Colonialism is a history of the US colonial project in the Philippines told through the lens of reinforced concrete construction. Though still a new technology in the early twentieth century, the US colonial government used it to the virtual exclusion of all other building materials. Drawing on archives of colonial papers, government reports, industry periodicals, and other historical accounts, Diana Jean S. Martinez demonstrates and teases out the complexities of the American Empire and its relationship to the rest of the world. Concrete's double meaning, it being both a construction tool and a descriptor of actuality and solidity, maps onto the colonial practices enacted in the Philippines, a form of colonialism intended to be durable and capable of outlasting a legally defined colonial sovereignty. Situating the Philippines within the transformative processes of globalization, Martinez considers the annexation of the archipelago as part of an American civilizing mission, a goal influenced and supported by the environmental imperviousness and long-lasting nature of concrete"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478032380 (paperback)
1478032383
9781478029014 (hardcover)
1478029013
(ebook)
9781478061236

Subject:

Imperialism and architecture Philippines.
Concrete construction Philippines.
Architecture and race Philippines.
Architecture and globalization Philippines.
Construction en béton Philippines.
Impérialisme et architecture Philippines.
Architecture et mondialisation Philippines.
Architecture et race Philippines.
Architecture and globalization
Concrete construction
Imperialism and architecture
Philippines Colonization.
Philippines Relations United States.
United States Relations Philippines.
Philippines History 1898-1946.
Philippines Histoire 1898-1946.
Philippines
United States

Added entries:

Architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322997
Call No.: 322997
Copy: 1
Status: Available