Philippines | Asian History Books

Bataan: A Survivor’s Story

March 22, 2015

Like many other young American men during the depression-era 1930s, Gene Boyt entered Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Later, after receiving an ROTC commission in the Army Engineers and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Missouri School of Mines, Boyt joined the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater.While building runways and infrastructure […]
Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (New Press People’s History)

March 22, 2015

The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the “hearts and minds” of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army […]
Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

March 22, 2015

‘[A]n accessible introduction to models and theories of human nature and how they inform our professional practice’ Professional Social Work Sale Price:$65.00 0745309461
American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941

March 22, 2015

Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this pathbreaking work of historical scholarship, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony traces the evolution of Seattle as a major site for Philippine immigration between World Wars I and II and examines the dynamics of the community through the […]
…And A Few Marines: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines (Marines in World War II Commemorative Series)

March 22, 2015

It was apparently an insignificant event when a few Marine planes flew into a muddy airfield at Tacloban on the island of Leyte in the Philippines on 3 December 1944. All around them were the elements of the massive U.S. Army invasion which had begun on 20 October. Seven infantry divisions and six Army Air […]
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

March 22, 2015

From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called “a first-class historian,” here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of prisoners had been tortured and died. […]
Bread and Rice: An American Woman’s Fight to Survive in the Jungles and Prison Camps of the WWII Philippines

March 22, 2015

A gripping story of heroism, fortitude, and the ability to survive against all odds. Sale Price:$8.92 1592284132
The Muslim South and Beyond

March 22, 2015

This book is a collection of selected essays of Samuel K. Tan written through the years during his life and times a chairman and member of the Univeristy of the Philippines (UP) Faculty of History, Diliman from 1967-1994; as program director-convenor of UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies Mindana Suties Program 1994-2008; chairman and […]
Lapham’s Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945

March 22, 2015

” On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a major role in the resistance to the […]
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

March 22, 2015

Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting control over and “civilizing” a population of seven million people […]

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