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Wars of Civilization: The US Army Contemplates Wounded Knee, the Pullman Strike, and the Philippine Insurrection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2011

Priscilla Murolo
Priscilla Murolo
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Sarah Lawrence College
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Abstract

This article explores the military history that links federal suppression of the Pullman Strike in 1894 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the US conquest of the Philippines in 1899–1903. Military men expressed remarkably similar understandings of their targets in the three campaigns, and in each case they paired condemnations of the enemy with many of the same positive stereotypes of soldiers like themselves. Analysis of this imagery offers new perspectives on the US Army's role in imperial projects as well as state action against labor. If strikers resembled unruly colonial subjects in the military mind, the reverse also held true; and soldiers' self-representations reveal that their goals did not necessarily match the state's agenda.

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Special Feature: Labor and the Military
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , Fall 2011 , pp. 77 - 102
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2011

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