Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (Politics in Asia)

✍ Scribed by E. Hedman

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The only book length study to cover the Philippines after Marco's downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century. Appealing to both the academic and non academic reader, topics covered include:national level electoral politicseconomic growththe Philippine Chineselaw and orderoppositionthe Leftlocal and ethnic politics.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Series editor’s preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Trasformismo and Philippine democracy......Page 30
3 Morbid symptoms and political violence in the Philippines......Page 53
4 ‘Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown’......Page 82
5 The Last Hurrah revisited......Page 105
6 Malling Manila......Page 135
7 From Pugad Lawin to Pugad Baboy......Page 157
8 The Sulu zone revisited......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 200
Index......Page 216