- EAN13
- 9781541701519
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- PublicAffairs
- Date de publication
- 07/05/2024
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- anglais
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In this "forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery"
(Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo--an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or
My Lai, yet today largely forgotten--is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of
a single photograph.
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern
Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known
as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was
hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant
feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries,
including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but
they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed
to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been
captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the
historical record.
In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of
a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim
logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre--which claimed hundreds
more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined--reveals the extent to which
practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism,
were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results.
(Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo--an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or
My Lai, yet today largely forgotten--is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of
a single photograph.
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern
Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known
as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was
hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant
feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries,
including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but
they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed
to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been
captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the
historical record.
In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of
a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim
logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre--which claimed hundreds
more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined--reveals the extent to which
practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism,
were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results.
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