Woods presents a complex revisionist history of the relationship between the US and the Philippines during the early decades of the Cold War. This thoroughly researched monograph shines a light on the ambiguities of American anti-imperialist ideology and rhetoric in a polarized Cold War world. (Choice) In Freedom Incorporated , a readable and engaging book, Colleen Woods argues that U.S. imperial exceptionalism in the post-World War II period had a healthy 'entanglement' or symbiosis with Cold War anti-Communist ideology and policies. Woods's key argument is that anti-Communism and military campaigns in the name of freedom were in fact instruments to perpetuate U.S. power.

Freedom Incorporated underlines the great irony of U.S. self-idealism and exceptionalism. In the Philippines, political leaders used anti-Communism and "law and order" liberally to perpetuate dictatorship, especially during Ferdinand Marcos's many years of authoritarian, corrupt rule backed by the United States (Cold War Studies) Colleen Woods' innovative and fascinating book Freedom Incorporated brings the late-colonial Philippines and the first decades of independence together into a unified analytical frame. Freedom Incorporated is a detailed and necessary look at the ways the United States repackaged empire in a decolonizing world.The book greatly enhances our understandings of the crucial elements of the post-1945 U.S. empire (anticommunist ideology, basing, development programs), locating their genesis not only in the sociocultural and geostrategic calculations of the Cold War but also in "traditional" forms of colonial rule.

(Diplomatic History)book greatly enhances our understandings of the crucial elements of the post-1945 U.S. empire (anticommunist ideology, basing, development programs), locating their genesis not only in the sociocultural and geostrategic calculations of the Cold War but also in "traditional" forms of colonial rule.(Diplomatic History)ates(Cold War Studies) Colleen Woods' innovative and fascinating book Freedom Incorporated brings the late-colonial Philippines and the first decades of independence together into a unified analytical frame. Freedom Incorporated is a detailed and necessary look at the ways the United States repackaged empire in a decolonizing world.The book greatly enhances our understandings of the crucial elements of the post-1945 U.S. empire (anticommunist ideology, basing, development programs), locating their genesis not only in the sociocultural and geostrategic calculations of the Cold War but also in "traditional" forms of colonial rule.

(Diplomatic History)book greatly enhances our understandings of the crucial elements of the post-1945 U.S. empire (anticommunist ideology, basing, development programs), locating their genesis not only in the sociocultural and geostrategic calculations of the Cold War but also in "traditional" forms of colonial rule.(Diplomatic History)ic History).