AMERICAN RULE AND THE

FORMATION OF FILIPINO
COLONIAL NATIONALISM

Hector Manuel Jon

Brizuela
PS 201

THE PHILIPPINES: A STUDY

IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(1942)
The first comprehensive academic study of the Philippine
political development under American rule.
Joseph Ralston Hayden
long student of the Philippines, a Republican and an articulate
advocate of a continuing connection between the United States and
the colony.
A Philippine vice governor

Coverage of the book is1916-1941 (from Tutelage training to

Commonwealth before the War)
Successes and pitfalls of the Filipinization process

FAILED EXPECTATIONS FROM

AMERICAN TUTELAGE
A less than perfect and full of unexpected outcomes
Attempt to establish American democracy gave birth to a singleparty regime dominated by Manuel L. Quezon, leader of the
Nacionalista and later president of the Philippine Commonwealth
Expected peaceful and stable engagement between elites and
masses was shocked with multiple poor peoples revolts
The unexpected results were dealt by Hayden with selective
citation of failures and successes
The successes were American-guided while the failures were uniquely
Filipino