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The book provides a “spatial vocabulary” that should, in the last instance, help us critique U.S. imperial relations in the past and present to undo them in the near future. It is precisely to the production of American colonial spaces that Scott Kirsch’s book directs our attention. In particular, the author explores the production of spaces of sovereignty, knowledge, aesthetics, and circulation, categories that effectively function as organizational principles for the book. American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines is a fantastic book about the contradictory spatial strategies adopted by U.S. empire in the early twentieth century. Historical geographers and historians of empire will find the material discussed here extremely rich and provocative.

-Joaquín Villanueva, Department of Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN. The AAG Review of Books https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2023.2277951

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