Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 1-21

3. Background to Colonialism

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 23-30

4. The American Empire in the Pacific

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 31-75

5. Denials and Betrayals, Conquest and Capitulation

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 77-99

6. The Philippine–American War, 1899–1913, and the US Counterinsurgency and Pacification Campaign

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 101-169

7. The Cold War and the Post-Cold War Hegemony

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 171-189

8. The Racialized State

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 191-239

9. Teleology in History and Intellectual Responsibility

   • Kenneth E. Bauzon

   Pages 241-262

10. Back Matter

    Pages 263-304

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This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the American Empire in the Pacific, and to the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization. This re-telling of history is done by drawing from the works of E. San Juan, Jr. (henceforth, San Juan), considered arguably one of the great contemporary cultural and literary critics of our time. In this author's view, San Juan's lifetime of works offer a living documentation of, among others, the history and thought of the modern world highlighted by the rise of capitalism through the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization, and shepherded to its hegemonic status by what stands today as the preeminent empire of the United States. The book underscores the symbiosis between contemporary capitalism as an economic system based on accumulation on the one hand, and the American imperial state on the other, just as it revisits the colonial project that was carried out in capitalism's wake, the violence and subjugation inflicted on its victims, and how this colonial project has morphed into a new form of colonialism (or neocolonialism) maintained and enforced through the rules and institutional mechanisms of what is popularly known as neoliberal globalization that also provides the ideological and  legal rationale for the commodification and the ultimate grab of the global commons reminiscent of the classical, albeit cruder, form of colonialism.

• Historical materialism
• Post-Colonialism
• Neoliberal Pedagogy
• Fetish of Multiculturalism
• Colonial Education
• Exceptionalism of US Imperialism
• Birth of Capitalism
• E. San Juan, Jr.
• Conversion of the Commons
• Enclosure Movement
• Rise of the Slave-Plantation Complex
• Class Basis of Racism
• Social Construction of Gender and Race
• Spanish-American War
• the Philippine Revolution
• Expansion of the US Empire
• The Philippine-American War
• US Counterinsurgency and Pacification Campaign
• Foundation for Racialized State Violence
• Filipino subaltern Marxist perspective

• Saint Joseph’s College – New York, Brooklyn, USA

  Kenneth E. Bauzon

Kenneth E. Bauzon, with a doctorate in Political Science from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, is currently Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's College in New York, USA. He has also taught in a visiting capacity at various institutions including Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University in New York City, and Tsukuba University in Tsukuba, Japan. He has received research and travel awards most notably a multi-year grant from the Japan Ministry of Education (Monbusho) as a member of a multidisciplinary project on comparative multiculturalism in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia; and, as a Fulbright Fellow to Egypt and Israel.

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