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[[File:War_of_Frontier_and_Empire.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809096617/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809096617&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2367c7c498fb24e696d01decee714593 A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902]</i> by David Silbey]]__NOTOC__
''This article was originally published on [http://videri.org/index.php?title=A_War_of_Frontier_and_Empire:_The_Philippine-American_War,_1899-1902| Videri.org] and is republished here with their permission.''
David Silbey's <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809096617/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809096617&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2367c7c498fb24e696d01decee714593 A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine American War]</i> is a narrative history of the complexity and shifting definitions of the war between the U.S. and the Philippines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Silbey weaves the threads of impact together, arguing that for the U.S., “It was a war that brought together the dominant American experience….the chaotic and defining expansion westward, with a new…and uncomfortable imperial ambition” (xiii). For the Philippines, the war resulted in a culturally and socially fractured collection of islands becoming a “self-conceived nation” via a shared experience of revolution, war and insurgency.
Silbey is careful to not label the conflict as just an insurgency, or a larger war, or just a revolution. Rather, he describes three distinct conflicts each with their own characterization and description. The first was the war between the Spanish and the allied U.S. and Filipino forces. The second was a conventional war between the U.S. Army and Navy and the Philippine Republic’s Army of Liberation. The third was a guerilla war fought between the U.S. forces and insurgent and disparate alliances of groups broken off from the Army of Liberation and elsewhere.
