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Author : Carlos Quirino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCAL:B3709308
Author : Carlos Quirino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081663283
Author : Joseph P. McCallus
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974974
It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains. In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. While following MacArthur's footsteps, he provides a historical and geographical account of this iconic soldier's military career, accompanied by a description of the contemporary Philippine landscape. McCallus uses the past and the present to explore how America influenced the country's political and educational systems and language, as well as the ramifications of the continued U.S. military presence and the effects of globalization on traditional Filipino society. He examines the American influence on its architecture and introduces to the reader the American expatriate business community—people who have lived in the Philippines for decades and continue to help shape the nation. The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines is an absorbing look at how American military intervention and colonial rule have indelibly shaped a nation decades after the fact.
Author : David Joel Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974014
A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability.It is not possible to comprehend the many changes in the Philippines?such as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled him?without an awareness of the religious, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the history of these islands. These forces formed the focus of the first edition of The Philippines. Of that 1982 edition, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that ?anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his '`'must' reading list.?The fourth edition has been updated through the final years of the Ramos presidency, and contains a new section on the impact of President Estrada.
Author : Daniel F. Doeppers
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299305109
The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the "megacity." A historical study of Manila looks at the continuing challenges of getting food, water, and services to the millions of people who live in the world's megacities.
Author : Christopher Capozzola
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541618268
A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfare Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos. As the US military expanded in Asia, American forces confronted their Pacific rivals from Philippine bases. And from the colonial-era Philippine Scouts to post-9/11 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Filipinos were crucial partners in the exercise of US power. Their service reshaped Philippine society and politics and brought thousands of Filipinos to America. Telling the epic story of a century of conflict and migration, Bound by War is a fresh, definitive portrait of this uneven partnership and the two nations it transformed.
Author : David Joel Steinberg,David P. Chandler,William R. Roff,John R. W. Smail,Robert H. Taylor,Alexander Woodside,David K. Wyatt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824845421
Author : Philippines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Gazettes
ISBN : OSU:32437010833719
Author : John A. Glusman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780142002223
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn’t protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan’s major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.
Author : Patricio N. Abinales,Donna J. Amoroso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538103951
This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied strategies the state has employed to overcome its structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. The authors argue that this process reflects the country’s recurring dilemma: on the one hand is the state’s persistent inability to provide essential services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic development; on the other is the Filipinos’ equally enduring suspicions of a strong state. To many citizens, this powerfully evokes the repression of the 1970s and the 1980s that polarized society and cost thousands of lives in repression and resistance and billions of dollars in corruption, setting the nation back years in economic development and profoundly undermining trust in government. The book’s historical sweep starts with the polities of the pre-colonial era and continues through the first year of Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial presidency.
Author : William Wise
Publisher : Backinprint.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-31
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0595198090
Chick Parsons was a shadowy, will-of-the-wisp figure, who sailed from Australia eight times by submarine, to enemy-occupied Mindanao, in the Philippines. There he coordinated the American-Filipino guerilla movement, and by war’s end had become one of America’s most decorated heroes. A TV documentary film, “Parsons, King Of Spies,” is currently in production.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philippines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122347359
Author : Joseph P. McCallus
Publisher : New Day Publishers (Philippines)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015042935000
Author : Travis Ingham,Steve W. Chadde
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1495308804
MacArthur's Emissary, originally published in 1945 as Rendezvous by Submarine by Travis Ingham, is the moving story of U.S. Navy Commander Charles “Chick” Parsons, who was instrumental in organizing a fleet of submarines to supply the resistance in the Philippines. He forged this critical link between General Douglas MacArthur in Australia and guerrillas of the Philippines, especially on Mindanao. Tons of supplies, radio equipment and critically needed medical aid were delivered to the Philippines, while on return trips, civilians and wounded personnel were taken to safety. The efforts of Chick Parsons were of immeasurable importance to the Allied war effort in the Philippines. This new edition features a new Preface by Steve Chadde and maps and photographs.
Author : Peter Eisner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698407527
"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author of Masters of Sex A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II. On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia. Thousands of soldiers surrendered and were sent on the notorious eighty-mile Bataan Death March. But thousands of other Filipinos and Americans refused to surrender and hid in the Luzon hills above Bataan and Manila. MacArthur's Spies is the story of three of them, and how they successfully foiled the Japanese for more than two years, sabotaging Japanese efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur’s return. From a jungle hideout, Colonel John Boone, an enlisted American soldier, led an insurgent force of Filipino fighters who infiltrated Manila as workers and servants to stage demolitions and attacks. “Chick” Parsons, an American businessman, polo player, and expatriate in Manila, was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. He escaped in the guise of a Panamanian diplomat, and returned as MacArthur’s spymaster, coordinating the guerrilla efforts with the planned Allied invasion. And, finally, there was Claire Phillips, an itinerant American torch singer with many names and almost as many husbands. Her nightclub in Manila served as a cover for supplying food to Americans in the hills and to thousands of prisoners of war. She and the men and women who worked with her gathered information from the collaborating Filipino businessmen; the homesick, English-speaking Japanese officers; and the spies who mingled in the crowd. Readers of Alan Furst and Ben Macintyre—and anyone who loves Casablanca—will relish this true tale of heroism when it counted the most.