| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Resil B. Mojares. The War against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu; 1899–1906. Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 1999. Pp. 250. $20.00.

As the recent contretemps over the Balangiga bells illustrates, the Philippine War of 1899 to 1902, although all but forgotten even during its centennial, still arouses a surprising amount of controversy. For many years it has been forced into narrow ideological frames, culminating in the "our My Lai of 1900" interpretation, a view expounded even in some recent university texts. In large part due to the pioneering work of Glenn A. May, in the past twenty years Philippine scholarship has moved away from nationalist mythology and focused on the war in the provinces. During this same period, American military historians have emphasized the counterinsurgency campaigns in the boondocks. The result is a growing consensus among specialists that the Philippine War is best understood as a series of regional struggles that varied greatly from island to island. Resil B. Mojares's study of the war on the Visayan island of Cebu is an important contribution to this interpretation. . . .

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