num_pages: 440
description: ABOUT THE BOOK...may mahalagang mungkahi si Contantino upang ang lumipas na hindi tunay na nakalilipas ay huwag nang lumawig sa kasalukuyan. Ito'y ang pagbubuo ng isang uri ng nasyonalismong mabisang sasalungat sa masalimuot na sistema ng imperyalismo. Sa panahong nagkakasama- sama na naman ang imperyalistanmg bansa tulad ng ginagagawa ng Estados Unidos at Hapon na dati'y magkaaway, dapat ding ang mga bansang tulad ng Pilipinas ay makipag-alyansa sa mag katulad nitong mga bansang sinasamantala. Dapat bumuo ng nagkakaisang prente ang mga bansa sa sa Ikatlong Daigdig. At dapat na ring matutunan ng mga Pilipino ang angkop na uri ng nasyonalismo na mabisang sasaliunagt sa makabagong uri ng pagsasamantala sa siglo beinte. -- Ang Nasyonalismo Ngayon ni Lilia Quindoza Santiago, SAGISAG, Marso 1979The Continuing Past is not the sort of book that would gather dust in some musty bookshelf. It does not reek of historical arcana nor is it a mystical rendering of a people's supposed destiny. It is written with the crispness and immediacy of a newspaper expose and like its predecessor A Past Revisited, it is a relevant and significant work which analyses past events from a nationalist standpoint. It is a useful and "usable past" of which the Constantinos write and together the two volumes constitute an authentic and well-researched version of "a people's history". -- "A Continuing Demystification of History" by Sheila Coronel, Philippine Collegian, August 30, 1978Much of the data Constantino bases his interpretations on have already been revealed by earlier writers. But it is the primary virtue of this book that it has been able to weave the seemingly disparate threads these data suggest into a coherent viewpoint--distinct from, let us say, the merely patriotic implications of Agoncillo's works, or, for that matter, the relatively limited interpretative framework of Hernando Abaya's. As a consequence, the nationalism Constantino speaks of--a term to which other scholars might object because of its chauvinist connotations--is divorced from the vagueness and evasiveness usually attached to it. It is here meant to represent certain concrete forms of thought and action, congealing in anti-imperialism and its observe side, partisanship on the side of the people. -- "Constantino and A People's History" by Luis V. Teodoro, WHO, September 30, 1978
language: Filipino; Pilipino
title: Ang Bagong Lumipas-II: 1940-1965
titlecomplete: Ang Bagong Lumipas-II: 1940-1965
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 196
publisher: University of Philippines Press and Foundation for Nationalist Studies