David Joel Steinberg

The Philippines

A Singular And A Plural Place, Fourth Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 many changes in the Philippines?such as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled him?without 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.?The fourth edition has been updated through the final years of the Ramos presidency, and contains a new section on the impact of President Estrada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 4. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780367096496
• ISBN-10: 0367096498
• Artikelnr.: 57382084

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Fourth Edition
1. The Rules of the Road
Kinship and Other Relationships
Social Values
2. This Very Beautiful Pearl of the Orient Sea
Nature's Terrors
The Physical Environment
Wet Rice
Sugar, Hemp, and Coconut
Land Ownership and the Distribution of Rural Wealth
Other Crops and Resources
Manila
3. A Singular and a Plural Folk
The Plural Society
Lowlanders and Uplanders
Migrants
The Chinese
The Mestizos
The New Filipinos
The Ilustrado Elite
The Function of Education
4. The Search for a Usable Past
The Spanish Era
The Nineteenth Century
Ilustrado Nationalism
The Decade of Struggle
Ilustrado-American Collaboration
Historical Ambiguities
The American Interregnum
5. The Religious Impulse: Global and Local Traditions
The Spanish Church
Iglesia Filipina Independiente
The Roman Church During the American Interregnum
The Local Tradition
Islam
Religion Today
6. Collaboration and Restoration
The Trauma of World War II
The Old Order
7. The Marcos Era
The Man Himself
The Constitutional Presidency
Martial Law
The Communist Insurgency
Economic Growth and Decline
New Players and Old
Disease and Decay
8. The Age of Aquino
The First Blush
The Politicized Army and the Militarized Party
Prosperity and Stability
Nationalism Resurgent
A Democratic Conclusion
Change and Stasis
9. The Ramos Years: Solid, Stolid, Successful
The Ramos Presidency
The Election of 1995
Economic Progress
National Stability
Postneocolonial Realities
The Endgame
10. The Estrada Anomaly
Jose Ejercito Estrada
The New Regime
Security and Insecurity
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index