TY - BOOK TI - Colonial Manila, 1909-1912: three Dutch travel accounts SN - 9789715507585 AV - DS 685.8.A2 PY - 0000///Ateneo De Manila University Press PB - Quezon City KW - Jacobs, Aletta Henriette -- Travel -- 1909- KW - Muller, Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas -- Travel -- 1909-. KW - Rouffaer, Gerret Pieter -- Travel -- 1911- N1 - Includes bibliographic references and index N2 - Around 1910, three Dutch public intellectuals separately visited Manila. Feminist doctor Aletta Jacobs, orientalist scholar Gerret Rouffaer, and ethnologist Hendrik Muller were all curious to see how the Americans were implementing their much-advertised colonial policy of "benevolent assimilation." In Colonial Manila, 1909-1912: Three Dutch Travel Accounts, these reports are for the first time made available to Philippine readers, thus adding to the social history of the city and the country at a time when Americans were strengthening their hold over their new colony ER -