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Aventures d’un Gentilhomme Breton aux îles Philippines (French Edition)

March 22, 2015

Ce livre est une oeuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par Ebooks libres et gratuits. L’achat de l’édition Kindle inclut le téléchargement via un réseau sans fil sur votre liseuse et vos applications de lecture Kindle. Sale Price:buy at discount B004UKEZGG
Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (Currents in Latin Amer & Iberian Music)

March 22, 2015

In this groundbreaking study, D. R. M. Irving reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For some two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were firmly interlinked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of politics, religion, trade, and culture. The city of Manila, founded in 1571, […]
The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700 (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

After conquest of the Philippine archipelago in the late sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers launched a sweeping social program designed to bring about dramatic religious, political, and economic changes. But the limitations of Spanish colonial resources, together with the reactions of Filipinos themselves, combined to shape the outcome of that effort in unique and unexpected ways, […]
Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love

March 22, 2015

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families on both sides of the global divide.The outcome of Geraldine Pratt’s collaboration with the […]
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942

March 22, 2015

In The Times When Men Must Die, Marconi Dioso revisits Bataan and Corregidor and revives the questions that until now most historians and self-proclaimed experts have grappled with themselves: Why did Japanese military reinforcements arrive to finally allow Homma to bring the Philippines to its knees, while Washington set its military priorities elsewhere, in the […]
The Philippines and the Far East

March 22, 2015

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) […]
Dogeaters

March 22, 2015

Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes, “Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures . . . she takes aim at racism in […]
MacArthur (Great Generals)

March 22, 2015

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability has become an indispensable trait for military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. One of the first proponents of a new dimension […]
Jungle Patrol, the Story of the Philippine Constabulary (1901-1936)

March 22, 2015

“Always Out-Numbered, Never Out-Fought!” ….. the Philippine Constabulary Jungle Patrol, the Story of the Philippine Constabulary (1901 – 1936) by Vic Hurley Hurley’s remarkable and hard-to-find (1938) book about an obscure and heroic quasi-military force, the Philippine Constabulary, is now re-issued by Cerberus Books in a new, improved edition containing all of the original text […]
Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them

March 22, 2015

From the depths of defeat…On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense of the Philippines. When defeat came, MacArthur swore he would […]

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