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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
by Luis H. Francia
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The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more)

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Bound to empire :the United States and the Philippines
Bound to empire :the United States and the Philippines
by H W Brands
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From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992, America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism, earnest... (read more)

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The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place (Nations of the Modern World)
The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place (Nations of the Modern World)
by David Joe Steinberg
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A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of... (read more)

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Dead season :a story of murder and revenge on the Philippine island of Negros
Dead season :a story of murder and revenge on the Philippine island of Negros
by Alan Berlow
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This gripping investigation of a savage murder on the Philippine island of Negros illuminates the tangled and violent interplay of colonialism's legacy. As Alan Berlow investigates the murder, he discovers the ultimate cause imbedded in the history and... (read more)

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The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-Occupied Philippines
The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-Occupied Philippines
by Scott Walker
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A gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines.As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out... (read more)

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Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines
Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines
by H. W. Brands
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A history of the U.S. role in the Philippines unravels a century of complex relations between these two nations, a relationship that began with Commodore Dewey's defeat of the Spanish Fleet in 1892. By the author of Cold Warriors.... (read more)

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The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-Occupied Philippines
The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-Occupied Philippines
by Scott Walker
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A gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines. As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe... (read more)

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Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
by Alfred W. McCoy
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today’s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America’s first information... (read more)

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Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)
Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)
by Alfred W Mccoy
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After conquest of the Philippine archipelago in the late sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers launched a sweeping social program designed to bring about dramatic religious, political, and economic changes. But the limitations of Spanish colonial... (read more)

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Filipino Politics (Politics & International Relations of Southeast Asia)
Filipino Politics (Politics & International Relations of Southeast Asia)
by David Wurfel
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Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin
Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin
by Epifanio San Juan
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Philippines: Fire on the Rim
Philippines: Fire on the Rim
by Joseph Collins
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-307) and index.... (read more)

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The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
by Vicente L. Rafael
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In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise... (read more)

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Work on the Mountain
Work on the Mountain
by N. V. M Gonzalez
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Little Brown Brother
Little Brown Brother
by Leon Wolff
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Waltzing with a dictator :the Marcoses and the making of American policy
Waltzing with a dictator :the Marcoses and the making of American policy
by Raymond Bonner
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Sitting in darkness :Americans in the Philippines
Sitting in darkness :Americans in the Philippines
by David Haward Bain
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Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin
Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin
by E San Juan
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Mountain Arbiters the Changing Life of a Philipine Hill People
Mountain Arbiters the Changing Life of a Philipine Hill People
by Edward P Dozier
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Prosperity Without Progress Manila Hemp & Material Life in the Colonial Philippines
Prosperity Without Progress Manila Hemp & Material Life in the Colonial Philippines
by Norman G Owen
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