The Philippines, a singular and a plural place

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The Philippines, a singular and a plural place

David Joel Steinberg

(Nations of the modern world)

Westview Press, 1994

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780813320373

Description

A guide to the multidimensional facets of the Philippines, including an assessment of the legacy of Benigno Aquino Jr, and the country's transition to the Ramos presidency.

Table of Contents

  • The rules of the road
  • this very beautiful pearl of the Orient Sea
  • a singular and a plural folk
  • the search for a usable past
  • the religious impulse - global and local traditions
  • collaboration and restoration
  • the Marcos era
  • the age of Aquino
  • Ramos - a new direction?
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780813320380

Description

In his 1982 endorsement of the first edition of this book, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his must reading list. His recommendation holds equally true for the third edition of this widely praised work. The author has extensively revised his classic to assess Aquinos legacy and the transition to the Ramos presidency, making even more valuable a work Benigno Aquino found endlessly readable and illuminated by penetrating insights into the complex character of the Filipino. 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 another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability. It is not possible to comprehend the recent changes in the Philippinessuch as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled himwithout an awareness of the religious, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the history of these islands. These forces formed the focus of the first edition of The Philippines. Of that 1982 edition, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his must reading list. Now the author, a student of the Philippines for over thirty-five years, has revised the book extensively and added chapters on the Marcos era, the age of Aquino, and Fidel Ramos, making even more valuable the study Benigno Aquino called endlessly readable and illuminated by penetrating insights into the complex character of the Filipino.

Table of Contents

  • The Rules of the Road
  • This Very Beautiful Pearl of the Orient Sea
  • A Singular and a Plural Folk
  • The Search for a Usable Past
  • The Religious Impulse: Global and Local Traditions
  • Collaboration and Restoration
  • The Marcos Era
  • The Age of
  • Aquino
  • Ramos: A New Direction?.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA22652213
  • ISBN
    • 0813320372
    • 0813320380
  • LCCN
    93035587
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boulder
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 240 p., [1] leaf of plate
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
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