Anne L Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne L Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1362-0068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Matthew Lassiter’s Review of The Long War on Drugs
Beauty Regimes
The connected transient
"Since its conception, cultural theorists have charted the rise of virtual culture and the differences between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face (F2F) interaction. Cybercommunication throws into discord traditional notions of space, place, locality, local culture and social interaction. Internet study reveals new webs of meaning as network technologies affect our behaviour and our way of thinking. It is now widely believed am…
Re-thinking Region
More than twenty years ago, historian Robert McMahon pointed out that studies of U.S.-Southeast Asian relations with a “broad, regional focus” remain “surprisingly rare.”1 His observation came in the bibliographic essay accompanying his own contribution to this sparse field, and his book remains one of precious few examples. As Kenton Clymer demonstrates in the opening essay in this Roundtable, it remains the case that few scholars study U.S. rel…
Introduction
As we write at the end of December 2020, reflecting now on almost a year of living with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, we are heartened by the emergency authorization of several vaccines in the United States, the European Union, Great Britain, China, and Russia. The first of these vaccines is notable not only for the speed, but also the international collaboration which has facilitated its development. It was developed in a small scientific lab in Germany…
The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition
The United States led the initial steps toward global prohibition in the early years of the twentieth century in part in order to support prohibition in the Philippines (1908) and the rest of the United States (1914). These steps occurred despite the variety of opinions about the legitimacy of recreational and medicinal marijuana in Europe and Asia. The US policy set precedents that would come to fruition as the war on drugs in later years, inclu…
Pacific America
Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings. Ed. by Lon Kurashige. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2017. xii, 275 pp. $68.00.) Anne L. Foster Anne L. Foster Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 2, September 2019, Page 418, https://doi.org/10.1…
Michael C. Hawkins. Making Moros
In the epilogue (especially on pp. 136–137) to Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South, Michael C. Hawkins reveals the questions that prompted him to write this book: Why do so many Muslim Filipinos feel nostalgia for the period of United States military rule now more than one hundred years ago? And why do so many of them profess a wish for U.S. military forces to return, providing at least a…
Religious Rhetoric and Complexities of Imperialism
Journal Article Religious Rhetoric and Complexities of Imperialism Get access Susan K. Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 288 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0199740109, $35 (hardcover) Anne L. Foster Anne L. Foster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 400–403,…
Contradictory Images of Empire
One of the most vibrant subfields of U.S. foreign relations history is imperial studies. It might even be more proper to say that imperial history is becoming its own subfield, despite lacking the infrastructure of a professional society, dedicated journal, and job postings. The number of scholars and their engaging, insightful work suggest imperial studies will only develop further. David Brody's Visualizing American Empire is a worthy contribut…
Ends of Empire
Ends of Empire posits an intricate, ambitious thesis about the ways that examination of Asian American cultural products will reveal how they “stage the Cold War as a geopolitical, cultural and espistemological project of gendered racial formation and imperialism undergirding U.S. global hegemony” (p. 4). This critique provides an “unsettling hermeneutics” that destabilizes American exceptionalism, and much that Jodi Kim argues underpins U.S. ide…
Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia
Opium played a critical and contradictory role in the rhetoric and practice of the civilizing mission in colonial Southeast Asia at the turn civilizing projects, while colonial governments struggled to justify the sale of opium to colonized peoples. The United States entered the region as a colonial power at the height of these debates. This article argues that US permitted legal opium sales, and opium policy developed in the context of this regi…
Projections of Power
The Blood of Government
American Colonial State in the Philippines
The American Colonial State in the Philippines
In 1898, the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional - as an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar se…
Prohibition as Superiority
(2000). Prohibition as Superiority: Policing Opium in South-East Asia, 1898–1925. The International History Review: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 253-273
The Scar That Binds
n\t\t\t\t\tIn The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound,"…
Secret Police Cooperation and the Roots of Anti-Communism in Interwar Southeast Asia
The end of the Cold War has given scholars new opportunity to re view the origins, meaning, and even purpose of the Cold War.1 Nor malization of relations between the United States and Vietnam, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, provides historians with a similar opportunity to begin the same process of reconsidering the origins and meaning of America's war in Vietnam. This essay explores the development o…
Ends of Empire
Ends of Empire posits an intricate, ambitious thesis about the ways that examination of Asian American cultural products will reveal how they “stage the Cold War as a geopolitical, cultural and espistemological project of gendered racial formation and imperialism undergirding U.S. global hegemony” (p. 4). This critique provides an “unsettling hermeneutics” that destabilizes American exceptionalism, and much that Jodi Kim argues underpins U.S. ide…
Projections of Power
The Scar That Binds
n\t\t\t\t\tIn The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound,"…
The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition
The United States led the initial steps toward global prohibition in the early years of the twentieth century in part in order to support prohibition in the Philippines (1908) and the rest of the United States (1914). These steps occurred despite the variety of opinions about the legitimacy of recreational and medicinal marijuana in Europe and Asia. The US policy set precedents that would come to fruition as the war on drugs in later years, inclu…
Secret Police Cooperation and the Roots of Anti-Communism in Interwar Southeast Asia
The end of the Cold War has given scholars new opportunity to re view the origins, meaning, and even purpose of the Cold War.1 Nor malization of relations between the United States and Vietnam, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, provides historians with a similar opportunity to begin the same process of reconsidering the origins and meaning of America's war in Vietnam. This essay explores the development o…
Pacific America
Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings. Ed. by Lon Kurashige. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2017. xii, 275 pp. $68.00.) Anne L. Foster Anne L. Foster Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 2, September 2019, Page 418, https://doi.org/10.1…
Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia
Opium played a critical and contradictory role in the rhetoric and practice of the civilizing mission in colonial Southeast Asia at the turn civilizing projects, while colonial governments struggled to justify the sale of opium to colonized peoples. The United States entered the region as a colonial power at the height of these debates. This article argues that US permitted legal opium sales, and opium policy developed in the context of this regi…
Prohibition as Superiority
(2000). Prohibition as Superiority: Policing Opium in South-East Asia, 1898–1925. The International History Review: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 253-273
Secret Police Cooperation and the Roots of Anti-Communism in Interwar Southeast Asia
The end of the Cold War has given scholars new opportunity to re view the origins, meaning, and even purpose of the Cold War.1 Nor malization of relations between the United States and Vietnam, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, provides historians with a similar opportunity to begin the same process of reconsidering the origins and meaning of America's war in Vietnam. This essay explores the development o…
The Scar That Binds
n\t\t\t\t\tIn The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound,"…
Prohibition as Superiority
(2000). Prohibition as Superiority: Policing Opium in South-East Asia, 1898–1925. The International History Review: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 253-273
American Colonial State in the Philippines
The American Colonial State in the Philippines
In 1898, the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional - as an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar se…
The Blood of Government
Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia
Opium played a critical and contradictory role in the rhetoric and practice of the civilizing mission in colonial Southeast Asia at the turn civilizing projects, while colonial governments struggled to justify the sale of opium to colonized peoples. The United States entered the region as a colonial power at the height of these debates. This article argues that US permitted legal opium sales, and opium policy developed in the context of this regi…
Projections of Power
Ends of Empire
Ends of Empire posits an intricate, ambitious thesis about the ways that examination of Asian American cultural products will reveal how they “stage the Cold War as a geopolitical, cultural and espistemological project of gendered racial formation and imperialism undergirding U.S. global hegemony” (p. 4). This critique provides an “unsettling hermeneutics” that destabilizes American exceptionalism, and much that Jodi Kim argues underpins U.S. ide…
Contradictory Images of Empire
One of the most vibrant subfields of U.S. foreign relations history is imperial studies. It might even be more proper to say that imperial history is becoming its own subfield, despite lacking the infrastructure of a professional society, dedicated journal, and job postings. The number of scholars and their engaging, insightful work suggest imperial studies will only develop further. David Brody's Visualizing American Empire is a worthy contribut…
Religious Rhetoric and Complexities of Imperialism
Journal Article Religious Rhetoric and Complexities of Imperialism Get access Susan K. Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 288 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0199740109, $35 (hardcover) Anne L. Foster Anne L. Foster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 400–403,…
Michael C. Hawkins. Making Moros
In the epilogue (especially on pp. 136–137) to Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South, Michael C. Hawkins reveals the questions that prompted him to write this book: Why do so many Muslim Filipinos feel nostalgia for the period of United States military rule now more than one hundred years ago? And why do so many of them profess a wish for U.S. military forces to return, providing at least a…
The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition
The United States led the initial steps toward global prohibition in the early years of the twentieth century in part in order to support prohibition in the Philippines (1908) and the rest of the United States (1914). These steps occurred despite the variety of opinions about the legitimacy of recreational and medicinal marijuana in Europe and Asia. The US policy set precedents that would come to fruition as the war on drugs in later years, inclu…
Pacific America
Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings. Ed. by Lon Kurashige. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2017. xii, 275 pp. $68.00.) Anne L. Foster Anne L. Foster Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 2, September 2019, Page 418, https://doi.org/10.1…
The connected transient
"Since its conception, cultural theorists have charted the rise of virtual culture and the differences between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face (F2F) interaction. Cybercommunication throws into discord traditional notions of space, place, locality, local culture and social interaction. Internet study reveals new webs of meaning as network technologies affect our behaviour and our way of thinking. It is now widely believed am…
Re-thinking Region
More than twenty years ago, historian Robert McMahon pointed out that studies of U.S.-Southeast Asian relations with a “broad, regional focus” remain “surprisingly rare.”1 His observation came in the bibliographic essay accompanying his own contribution to this sparse field, and his book remains one of precious few examples. As Kenton Clymer demonstrates in the opening essay in this Roundtable, it remains the case that few scholars study U.S. rel…
Introduction
As we write at the end of December 2020, reflecting now on almost a year of living with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, we are heartened by the emergency authorization of several vaccines in the United States, the European Union, Great Britain, China, and Russia. The first of these vaccines is notable not only for the speed, but also the international collaboration which has facilitated its development. It was developed in a small scientific lab in Germany…
Beauty Regimes
Response to Matthew Lassiter’s Review of The Long War on Drugs
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