Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (Politics in Asia Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415147903
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Asian studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political History; Southeast Asia - History; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Asia - Southeast Asia; Government - Comparative; World - Post-Colonial Studies; History / Southeast Asia; History-World - Post-Colonial Studies; Political Science-Government - Comparative; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Asia - General; Ethnic Studies - General; History & Theory - General; 20th century; Philippines; Politics and government; Social conditions
First sentence: In the mid-1980s, at the height of the Reagan era and last decade of the Cold War, the Philippines became the focus of considerable international media attention, and news stories tended if not to romanticise the archipelago then at least to imbue it with special geo-political significance.