Reviewed by Robert McGreevey | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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*The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines.* By Paul A. Kramer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 538 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
Since the Organization of American Historians (OAH) called for the internationalization of U.S. history in 2002, a new literature on transnational history has emerged. One of the most important of these new works is Paul Kramer's The Blood of Government, a book that moves easily—and often brilliantly—across geographic and disciplinary boundaries to probe the dynamics of racial formation in the context of U.S. Empire.	1
Focusing on the Philippines during the period of U.S. colonial rule, Kramer explores how dynamically racial ideologies adapted at different historical moments. Most innovatively, Kramer shows how events in both the United States and the Philippines shaped these ideologies across what he calls "transpacific space" (p. 428). Drawing on a rich array of sources from archives in both the U.S. and the Philippines, Kramer crafts a truly transnational study of empire in which forces in the metropole and colony carry equally explanatory weight.	. . .

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