Author: Carlos Quirino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : tl
Pages : 274
Book Description
Magsaysay of the Philippines
Author: Carlos Quirino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : tl
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : tl
Pages : 274
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THE MAGSAYSAY STORY
Author: Carlos Peña Romulo
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Focus on the Barrio
Author: Jose Veloso Abueva
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Magsaysay
Author: Manuel Festin Martinez
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Accompanying video CD "is the first part of a film series about the late Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay"--Disc jacket.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Accompanying video CD "is the first part of a film series about the late Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay"--Disc jacket.
Illusions of Influence
Author: Nick Cullather
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804722803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Exploring the inner workings of the "special relationship" of the United States and the Philippines, this book challenges the accepted view that portrays the relationship as one of colonial domination and exploitation, with the United States controlling the Philippines for economic and geopolitical gain. Using Philippine sources released since the 1986 revolution and recently declassified U.S. records, the author finds instead a complex structure that allowed both nations to attain their most cherished goals while sacrificing interests of lesser importance. The United States obtained a military base complex it considered essential for the projection of American power in Asia. In return, the Philippines received a favored position in the American market and billions of dollars in economic and military aid. The Philippine elite manipulated the relationship and their nation's economy, creating a "crony capitalist" system that protected a traditional social order from the demands of a restive peasantry and an emerging Filipino-Chinese middle class. Though U.S. policy made crony capitalism possible, it could also threaten it, and Filipinos learned how to steer U.S. policy along lines advantageous to themselves by resorting to nonconfrontational resistance - thwarting development plans, harassing American businesses, diverting aid, restricting trade, and making military bases the target of nationalist attacks. The author rejects the myth that U.S. policy supported economic exploitation, finding instead that American business interests were docile bystanders sacrificed to U.S strategic imperatives. But American policymakers tolerated the manipulations that allowed Filipino oligarchs to plunder the economy and reinforce their political and economic dominance. The book thus forces us to rethink conventional assumptions about dependent relationships, and shows that generalizations about client states need to be qualified by considerations of culture and political economy.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804722803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Exploring the inner workings of the "special relationship" of the United States and the Philippines, this book challenges the accepted view that portrays the relationship as one of colonial domination and exploitation, with the United States controlling the Philippines for economic and geopolitical gain. Using Philippine sources released since the 1986 revolution and recently declassified U.S. records, the author finds instead a complex structure that allowed both nations to attain their most cherished goals while sacrificing interests of lesser importance. The United States obtained a military base complex it considered essential for the projection of American power in Asia. In return, the Philippines received a favored position in the American market and billions of dollars in economic and military aid. The Philippine elite manipulated the relationship and their nation's economy, creating a "crony capitalist" system that protected a traditional social order from the demands of a restive peasantry and an emerging Filipino-Chinese middle class. Though U.S. policy made crony capitalism possible, it could also threaten it, and Filipinos learned how to steer U.S. policy along lines advantageous to themselves by resorting to nonconfrontational resistance - thwarting development plans, harassing American businesses, diverting aid, restricting trade, and making military bases the target of nationalist attacks. The author rejects the myth that U.S. policy supported economic exploitation, finding instead that American business interests were docile bystanders sacrificed to U.S strategic imperatives. But American policymakers tolerated the manipulations that allowed Filipino oligarchs to plunder the economy and reinforce their political and economic dominance. The book thus forces us to rethink conventional assumptions about dependent relationships, and shows that generalizations about client states need to be qualified by considerations of culture and political economy.
America's Dirty Wars
Author: Russell Crandall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700313X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700313X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.
Filipinos at War
Author: Carlos Quirino
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Huk Rebellion
Author: Benedict J. Kerkvliet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461644283
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing top-down analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He argues that seeing a peasant revolt through the eyes of those who rebelled explains and clarifies the actions of people who otherwise might appear irrational. Drawing on a rich array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels, and the process of resistance.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461644283
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing top-down analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He argues that seeing a peasant revolt through the eyes of those who rebelled explains and clarifies the actions of people who otherwise might appear irrational. Drawing on a rich array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels, and the process of resistance.
Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Author: Alfredo R. Roces
Publisher:
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Category : Art, Philippine
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
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Category : Art, Philippine
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Dead Season
Author: Alan Berlow
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679747895
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 culture of a society locked into cycles of violent conflict behind a facade of democratic government.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679747895
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 culture of a society locked into cycles of violent conflict behind a facade of democratic government.