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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 – Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History … to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

March 22, 2015

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Sale Price:buy at discount B004TRD2BO
Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans

March 22, 2015

“Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans” is a pictorial- essay which gives the reader a sweeping vista of the presence and life of Filipinos in America from 1763 to 1963 through collection of 250 photographs, documents and 22 essays. Although Filipinos settled in North America before the American Revolution, very little known about them and even less […]
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

March 22, 2015

In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino history, Rafael treats […]
Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule

March 22, 2015

Book by Rafael, Vicente L. Sale Price:$66.16 0801420652
Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos

March 22, 2015

A follow-up to the 1992 bestselling classic Asian Americans—with all-new interviews that brilliantly illuminate the vibrant, ever-changing communities of Asian America.”Everybody thinks I’m crazy. They think a Japanese country singer can never make it in the U.S. But I followed my dreams.”—Hank Sasaki, country and western singer/songwriter, interviewed in Asian Americans in the Twenty-First CenturyThe […]
The Philippines: A Past Revisited, Vol. 1

March 22, 2015

In this book the traditional elements of historical writing are included but are critically examined against the background of changes in production relations and class structure and in the role of the Filipino people in the making of their own history. Sale Price:$80.62 9718958002
Beyond the March of Death: Memoir of a Soldier’s Journey from Bataan to Nagasaki

March 22, 2015

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to college when he was drafted from Grants, New Mexico, into a world completely foreign to him and a war he never envisioned. Soon he would bear witness to […]
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

March 22, 2015

In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine […]
The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause

March 22, 2015

A Veterans Day treasure, the true, first-person account of a captured World War II soldiers incredible escape and courageous journey home, discovered after more than fifty years. Of all the heroic stories to come out of World War II, few are so extraordinary as that of Major Rocky Gause, who was captured by the Japanese, […]
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines

March 22, 2015

Traces the history of the Philippines, discusses the influence of Spain and the United States, and looks at the problems facing the Philippines today. Sale Price:buy at discount B004BXA3HC

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