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In short the "pathologies" that Warwick Anderson has brought to our attention (without saying so directly) are the fantasies that existed in the minds of the US Military and Public Health officials, the divinely-inspired, government-appointed Civilizers of "Orientals" in the Philippines.
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race and Hygiene in ... by Watts, Sheldon / Journal of Social History
In the "fantasy" of writers such as Spenser, Ireland was a "nation of rogues" practicing their own particular cant, who served their would-be civilizers as a synecdoche "for the vagrants who posed a real and pressing problem for the English nation"(313).
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture by Forker, Charles R. / Shakespeare Studies
White women were supposed to carry "the banner of purity and spirituality" and be the civilizers and reproducers of the race; aboriginal women were rapidly demoted from being noble savages to being seen as "dissolute, dangerous and sinister.
Women and the West: the Mounties, cowboys and Indian chiefs need to ... by Govier, Katherine / Literary Review of Canada
 
 
 
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