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The Coils of Empire

2009· article· en· W2064699519 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Hal Brands

Bibliographic record

VenueDiplomatic History · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPhilippine History and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmpireColonialismRace (biology)PoliticsContext (archaeology)HistoryOrder (exchange)Quarter (Canadian coin)Subject (documents)Ancient historySociologyPolitical scienceLawGender studiesArchaeologyComputer science

Abstract

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At this late date, any author who puts “race” and “empire” in the title of a book on the United States and the Philippines has some explaining to do. These twin constructs have rarely been separated since their conjoining, in the U.S.-Philippine context, in 1898, and they have figured centrally in nearly every academic work on the subject for the last quarter century. The jaded reader may be forgiven for wondering what more can profitably be said about them. Paul Kramer does indeed explain, at great length. He presents what he calls a “transnational history of race and empire in Philippine-American colonial encounters of the early twentieth century.” So far, so straightforward. Things get a bit more complex when he elaborates: “It is, on the one hand, a history of the racial politics of empire, of the way in which hierarchies of difference were generated and mobilized in order to legitimate and to organize invasion, conquest, and colonial administration. … It is, on the other hand, a history of the imperial politics of race, of the way that empire-building interacted with, and transformed, the process of racial formation” (pp. 2–3).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.034
Scholarly communication0.0090.009
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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