This document provides background information on historian Alfred McCoy and summarizes some of his works focusing on Philippine political history and global drug trafficking. It notes that McCoy specialized in Philippine political history and the rise of global surveillance states. One of his works was a collection of political cartoons from the 1900-1941 American era in the Philippines that used caricatures to comment on social and political issues of that time period. The document also provides definitions of "political" and "caricature" to define the terms used in his works.
This document provides background information on historian Alfred McCoy and summarizes some of his works focusing on Philippine political history and global drug trafficking. It notes that McCoy specialized in Philippine political history and the rise of global surveillance states. One of his works was a collection of political cartoons from the 1900-1941 American era in the Philippines that used caricatures to comment on social and political issues of that time period. The document also provides definitions of "political" and "caricature" to define the terms used in his works.
This document provides background information on historian Alfred McCoy and summarizes some of his works focusing on Philippine political history and global drug trafficking. It notes that McCoy specialized in Philippine political history and the rise of global surveillance states. One of his works was a collection of political cartoons from the 1900-1941 American era in the Philippines that used caricatures to comment on social and political issues of that time period. The document also provides definitions of "political" and "caricature" to define the terms used in his works.
This document provides background information on historian Alfred McCoy and summarizes some of his works focusing on Philippine political history and global drug trafficking. It notes that McCoy specialized in Philippine political history and the rise of global surveillance states. One of his works was a collection of political cartoons from the 1900-1941 American era in the Philippines that used caricatures to comment on social and political issues of that time period. The document also provides definitions of "political" and "caricature" to define the terms used in his works.
A Glance at Selected Philippine Political Caricature in Alfred
McCoy Political Caricature of the American Era (1900-1941)
ALFRED MCCOY
. Alfred ‘Al’ William McCoy is an American historian and
educator. Born on June 8, 1945 Citizenship: Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also served as Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies He specializes in Philippines Political History and Global Opium Trafficking He spent the past quarter of his life writing about the politics and history
Works of Alfred McCoy:
Philippine Cartoons: Cartoon Political Caricature of the American Era Policing American’s Empire: The United States, The Philippines, and Rise of the Surveillance State (2009) Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asian- a classic work on drug trafficking (blocked by C.I.A. but remained in print for more than 50 years and translated to 9 languages
Definition of Terms Political
-po.lit.i.cal- Relating to the government or the public affairs of
a country Caricature Car.ica-ture- A picture ,description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking cahracteriscits are exaggerated in order to create a comic grotesque effect
Here are some example of Caricature ; So we will be seeing or
we can see a caricature or cartoons that exaggerating human faces, these are used as a symbol and able for the creator to project certain ideas and commentaries based on social and political issues in acertain period or a certain time