Focuses on the uneasy forces that converged to organise the Filipino people's understanding of their recent history including the impact of ""People Power"", Cory Aquino, the Church, and the middle class.
Focuses on the uneasy forces that converged to organise the Filipino people's understanding of their recent history including the impact of ""People P...
The Philippines entered the twentieth century newly free of Spanish rule and faced with the task of building a nation. Due in part to American control of the country for the first half of the twentieth century, liberalism played a dynamic role in shaping the government and philosophy of the Philippines. Through the biographies of four Filipino scholar-bureaucrats--Camilo Osias, Salvador Araneta, Carlos P. Romulo, and Salvador P. Lopez--Lisandro E. Claudio argues that liberal thought served as the grammar of Filipino democracy in the twentieth century. Melding political philosophy and...
The Philippines entered the twentieth century newly free of Spanish rule and faced with the task of building a nation. Due in part to American control...
