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

by Sidel; John

• ISBN13: 9780415147903
• ISBN10: 0415147905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Organized as a set of interrelated thematic essays, this book addresses key topics which will be of interest to the academic and non academic reader, such as the national level electoral politics, economic growth, the Philippine Chinese, law and order, opposition, the Left, and local and ethnic politics. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, as well as over a decade of research and work in the area, Hedman and Sidel provide a invaluable overview of the contemporary and historical scene of a much misunderstood part of Southeast Asia. It will fill an important gap in the literature for anyone interested in understanding the Philippines as well as students of politics, Asian studies, comparative politics, economics and sociology.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
List of abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Trasformismo and Philippine democracy	13	(23)
Morbid symptoms and political violence in the Philippines	36	(29)
`Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown'	65	(23)
The Last Hurrah revisited	88	(30)
Malling Manila: images of a city, fragments of a century	118	(22)
From Pugad Lawin to Pugad Baboy: the making of the `new native'	140	(26)
The Sulu zone revisited: the Philippines in Southeast Asia	166	(17)
Bibliography	183	(16)
Index	199