Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonifacio, Andres, 1863-1897
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Bonifacio's Bolo
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonifacio, Andres, 1863-1897
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Looking Back 5
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks back not just at our history but also on his life as an historian, this book being written for his 50th birthday. His introduction alone is already worth the price of admission.
Looking Back 4
Author: Ocampo Ambeth R.Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: “Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels in 1871. I met the Singapore elephant first as I traced Rizal’s footsteps and found a reference to it in his diary. It was upon meeting next the Jakarta elephant that prompted me to compile this collection of essays that begins and ends with an elephant. More reflective than usual and going beyond Rizal and my 19th-centuray comfort zone, these explorations still carry my trademark irreverent humor.”
Looking Back 2
Author: Ambeth OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Ambeth Ocampo always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to make of them. [He] makes history enjoyable reading while at the same time makes it anchor us to the past and therefore, and hopefully, prepares us for the future.” – F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature
Looking Back 3
Author: Ambeth OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe. He has made of history something amusing, entertaining . . . as immediate as a newspaper headline, as relevant as a rapper’s song.”– Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil
Looking Back
Author: Ocampo AmbethPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo’s “Looking Back” column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the country’s history.
The Making of the Filipino Nation and Republic
Author: Jose Veloso AbuevaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Looking Back 6
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history—whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach—Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity.
Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
Author: Eva-Lotta E. HedmanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415147913
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This work addresses key topics which should be of interest to the academic and non-academic reader, such as the national level electoral politics, economic growth, the Philippine Chinese, law and order, opposition, the Left, and local and ethnic politics.
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
Author: Gina ApostolPublisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1641291842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Revealing glimpses of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino writer Jose Rizal emerge despite the worst efforts of feuding academics in Apostol’s hilariously erudite novel, which won the Philippine National Book Award. Gina Apostol’s riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary, tracing his childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary, Jose Rizal. Mata’s 19th-century story is complicated by present-day foreword(s), afterword(s), and footnotes from three fiercely quarrelsome and comic voices: a nationalist editor, a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic, and a translator, Mimi C. Magsalin. In telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era, and to reimagine the nation’s great writer, Jose Rizal, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling, anarchic modes of narrative.