Blair and Robertson's The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Scholarship or Imperialist Propaganda? 6
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Contributor(s): Philippine Studies.56:1 (March 2008). pp.3-46 5 6 [] |
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ABSTRACT: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, a multivolume compilation of documents published from 1903 to 1907 has become a basic reference almost a creed- for scholars interested in the Spanish Philippines. This work has fostered the construction and spread of factual inaccuracies and deep-seated but mistaken assumptions about Spanish colonial rule, James Alexander Robertson and Emma Helen Blair were the authors of the preface and the translators of most of the documents. However, in 1903 James A. Leroy became its architect in penumbra, marginalizing key documents in order to highlight some events and suppress others, as well as compounding mistranslations. This article explains through the personal correspondence of James A. Roberstson and Emma H. Blair with James A. LeRoy how The Philippine Islkands emerged and developed, becoming an indispensable tool of historical propaganda in the service of U.S. colonial administration. 56
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