Vicente Rafael, The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines Duke U. Press, 2005
What do language and the act of translation have to do with the projection of imperial and military power? Vicente Rafael makes important connections and points to efforts to Americanize the English language in this nation's early years. He also discusses the politics of monolingualism, the notion of the melting pot, and the US military's use of interpreters in Iraq.