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Circulating Soldiers: Asian Military Labor across the American Pacific - Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century. By Christopher Capozzola. New York: Basic Books, 2020. 471 pp. ISBN: 9781541618275 (cloth). - Soldering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific. By Simeon Man. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvi, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780520283343 (cloth). - Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization. By Colleen Woods. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. ix, 267 pp. ISBN: 9781501749131 (cloth).

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Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century. By Christopher Capozzola. New York: Basic Books, 2020. 471 pp. ISBN: 9781541618275 (cloth).
Soldering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific. By Simeon Man. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvi, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780520283343 (cloth).
Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization. By Colleen Woods. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. ix, 267 pp. ISBN: 9781501749131 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2022

Mesrob Vartavarian
Mesrob Vartavarian*
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Harvard University Asia Center
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mvartavarian@gmail.com
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , November 2021 , pp. 1119 - 1124
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1 Major contributions include McCoy, Alfred W., Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999)Google Scholar; Eckert, Carter J., Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism 1866–1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 For recent examinations of military laborers in colonial states, see Vartavarian, Mesrob, “Pacification and Patronage in the Maratha Deccan, 1803–1818,” Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 6 (2016): 1749–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Vartavarian, “Disaggregating Colonialism: Recent Trends in Philippine Muslim Studies,” Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1 (2021): 227–38.

3 Cumings, Bruce, The Origins of the Korean War, vol. 2, The Roaring of the Cataract 1947–1950 (Seoul: Yuksabipyungsa, 2002), 193–203Google Scholar, 244–50, 256–59.

4 Hutchcroft, Paul D., “Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos,” in The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea, Kim, Byung-Kook and Vogel, Ezra F. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011), 542–72Google Scholar. It is odd that Man does not cite this work, as he utilizes other chapters from this volume.

5 Immerwahr, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Picador, 2019)Google Scholar.