About: Benevolent Assimilation (book)

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 is a non-fiction book documenting the history of the Philippine–American War by (1927–2010), a professor at San Francisco State University, published in 1982 by Yale University Press. The title refers to U.S. President William McKinley's "Benevolent Assimilation" proclamation of December 21, 1898, which used that term to characterize the U.S. occupation and administration of the entire group of the Philippine Islands, then in its early stages following the cession of sovereignty by Spain to the U.S. in the 1898 Treaty of Paris.