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Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

March 25, 2015

In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California’s fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, […]
Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It

March 25, 2015

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March–a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately […]
Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization

March 25, 2015

Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world’s goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents, an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural […]
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 13: The Liberation of the Philippines–Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945

March 25, 2015

The smoke from the Battle for Leyte Gulf had hardly cleared before plans were being made for the liberation of the rest of the Philippine Archipelago. Volume 13 of Morison’s masterful history covers the taking of Mindoro as a stepping stone to Luzon, the major landings on the shores of Lingayen Gulf, and the amphibious […]
Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror

March 25, 2015

With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941, the peaceful existence of the barely settled Jews filled with the kinds of uncertainties and oppression they thought they had left […]
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

March 25, 2015

Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed […]
Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II

March 25, 2015

In June, 1944, American and Japanese carrier fleets made their way through the Philippine Sea, both hoping to take control of the vital Marianas Islands. When they met, they embarked upon a naval engagement that escalated into the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history. Here is the true account of the battle, told from […]
Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq

March 25, 2015

The end of the cold war promised a new era of international peace. Instead, violence has proliferated across the globe. What does history tell us about how this conflict will play out? Noted military historian James R. Arnold delivers an engrossing narrative history of a century of counterinsurgent warfare. Analyzing past campaigns—the United States in […]
Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander (Memories of War)

March 25, 2015

After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 – and after leading the last horse cavalry charge in U.S. history – Ed Ramsey refused to surrender. Instead, he joined the Filipino resistance and rose to command more than 40,000 guerrillas. The Japanese put the elusive American leader at the top of their death list. Rejecting […]
Bataan: Our Last Ditch : The Bataan Campaign, 1942

March 25, 2015

Focuses on America’s first engagement in WWII. Unpublished letters, written and oral testimony of over 350 veterans restores these gruelling months into a historical record. Sale Price:$49.95 0870528777

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