Making Manila Modern : Science, Technology and American Colonialism 1898-1915
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The United States' acquisition of the Philippine Islands in 1898 was the result of a convergence of diverse concerns. Some saw acquiring the trappings of a Great Power as the next stage of American development. A second group included commercial and industrial interests. Some were missionaries and religious groups, especially Protestants, who saw the pagans, Moslems and Catholics of the Philippines as ripe spiritual fruit. A fourth group, especially significant for this paper, comprised the educated professionals who saw the new colony as a test bed or laboratory for their expertise. One of the aspiring experts was Dean C. Worcester, zoologist of the University of Michigan who had made scientific expeditions to the Philippines. Worcester became Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Insular Government, a powerful position with which to apply his ideas of colonial development. As a showcase for these civilizational efforts, the city of Manila itself rose high on the agenda for change in the Philippine Islands. A new, modern capital would display the rapid advance of Asian America. The man chosen to design the new Manila was Daniel H. Burnham, America's leading urban planner. This joining of expertise, enterprise and neo-classical aesthetics captured the imagination of Progressive-era Americans, and was the heart of what they wished to bring to their own cities, and demonstrate in the Philippines.
- 2010-03-31