books on the philippines
2020
Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines P.6
CONTENTS Biography
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History
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Politics
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Social Science
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War! The Memoir of a Spanish Soldier Wounded in the Philippines By Ricardo Burguete
December 2019 170 pages
In this memoir Ricardo Burguete, a Spanish soldier who served in the Philippines from 1896 to1897, describes his journey to the Philippines, his impressions of the country, and his experiences fighting Filipino insurrectionists
Paperback 9780761871392 $34.99
D.J. Walker is professor emerita of Spanish at the University of New Orleans.
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Air Apaches The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II By Jay Stout
April 2019 432 pages Hardback 9780811738019 $29.95
Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group—Hell’s Angels—with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was like to be one of the young men flying low-level bombing and strafing missions and—if the missions weren’t dangerous enough—facing such challenges as kamikaze attacks and, if a pilot was shot down, primitive jungle conditions and a sword-brandishing enemy who did not treat downed airmen by the letter of the Geneva Convention. Air Apaches is more than the story of one unit in aerial combat in World War II. It is the story of men at war across all of history. Jay A. Stout is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with more than 4,500 flight hours and 37 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. He has appeared as an aviation and military expert on various TV and radio news programs, including Fox News and NPR. He is the author, among other books, of Hell’s Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II, Fighter Group: The 352nd “Blue-Nosed Bastards” in World War II, and The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe: The U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany in World War II. He lives in San Diego, California.
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The Devil's Causeway The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue By Matthew Westfall
March 2020 432 pages Paperback 9780762788453 $19.95
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Matthew Westfall is a writer, urbanist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, whose films have featured narrators such as Malcolm McDowell, Willem Dafoe, and F. Murray Abraham, and have been broadcast worldwide. He has devoted much of his professional career to tackling poverty in the developing world. Based in Asia for nearly three decades, his work as a development banker addresses some of the most intractable issues in our increasingly urban world: megacities, slums, and managing the urban environment. For his documentary On Borrowed Land, executive produced by Oliver Stone and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Matthew received the prestigious Paul Davidoff National Award for Advocacy Planning from the American Planning Association. Born in New York City and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, Westfall currently resides in the Philippines with his family. He spends his free time reading, writing, and collecting as a means to explore the fascinating history of his adopted country. The Devil's Causeway is his first work of narrative nonfiction. Visit matthewwestfall.com.
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Eight Survived The Harrowing Story Of The USS Flier And The Only Downed World War II Submariners To Survive And Evade Capture By Douglas A. Campbell
April 2018 304 pages Paperback 9781493032853 $19.95 Hardback 9781599219349 $24.95
The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in World War II. On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. Eight Survived tells the gripping story of the doomed submarine and its crew from its first patrol, during which it sank several enemy ships, to the explosion in the Sulu Sea. Its story and that of its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Douglas A. Campbell is the author of The Sea's Bitter Harvest: Thirteen Deadly Days on the North Atlantic. Previously a longtime reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, he writes for Soundings magazine.
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Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession By Arnisson Andre Ortega
December 2018 370 pages Paperback 9781498530538 $42.99 Hardback 9781498530514 $116.00
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Based on years of field research, this study examines the construction of urban and suburban space in the Philippines since a recent housing boom caused by an influx of wealth from returning Filipino migrants. It analyzes various developments, such as the rise of gated suburban communities and their effects on marginalized populations. Arnisson Andre Ortega is assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Placing Dreams and Building Homes Chapter 2: The Business of Building a Nation Chapter 3: Return, Reside, Reinvest: Mapping the Real Estate Boom Chapter 4: Neoliberalizing Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Chapter 5: Gated Dreams and Communities Chapter 6: Everyday Life Inside the Gates: Resistance, Loss and Risk Chapter 7: Volatile Spaces in the Peri-Urban Fringe, From the Fields to the Mountains Chapter 8: Metropolitan Accumulation by Peri-urban Relocation Chapter 9: Conclusion: Building Dreams Over Dreams
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Thunder on Bataan The First American Tank Battles of World War II By Donald L. Caldwell
June 2019 320 pages Hardback 9780811737715 $32.95
In an evocatively written book that conjures the sights, sounds, and smells of battle in the Philippines, Donald Caldwell brings to life the short but consequential combat history of the Provisional Tank Group—the first American armored unit to do battle in WWII—and tells the stories of the men who did the fighting and endured the harsh consequences. Donald L. Caldwell has been researching World War II for more than thirty years. He has written widely on the German Luftwaffe. His first book, JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe (Crown, 1991) sold 70,000 copies across all editions, and the two volumes of his JG 26 War Diary (Grub Street, 1996, 1998) are considered the best English-language history of a German fighter unit. He lives near Houston, Texas.
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Tropical Idolatry A Theological History of Catholic Colonialism in the Pacific World, 1568–1700 By R. L. Green
June 2018 150 pages Hardback 9781498566582 $100.00
Tropical Idolatry examines how thinkers within the Society of Jesus attempted to convert indigenous peoples of New Spain, the Philippine Islands, and the Mariana Islands to Catholicism. This book demonstrates the importance that both religious and political beliefs played in the establishment of the Church in the Spanish Pacific world. R. L. Green is assistant professor of religion at the College of the Holy Cross. Table of Contents Introduction 1. Creating an Identity 2. Establishing an Imperial Presence 3. Justifying Colonialism 4. Imagining Indigenous Religions 5. Sustaining the Evangelical Project 6. Expanding the Empire of Christ Conclusion
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The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding Global Cases Edited by Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Timothy Seidel
August 2018 386 pages Hardback 9781498537513 $120.00
In this collection of essays, authors from a variety of disciplines critically examine the peacebuilding implications and societal impact of the Hizmet Movement. Increased scholarly attention is being paid to the role of religion in peacebuilding theory and practice, and in particular how that is expressed in Islam and Islamic contexts. Mohammed Abu-Nimer is professor of international peace and conflict resolution and director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at the School of International Service, American University. Timothy Seidel is assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University.
Politics
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Networks of (Dis)Trust The Impact of Automation, Corruption, and Media on Philippine Elections By Vicente Chua Reyes Jr.
September 2019 188 pages Hardback 9781498534123 $90.00
This book reviews dominant paradigms of the Philippine state trapped in a simplistic patronage politics perspective. Using the unprecedented automation of the May 2010 elections, this book provides fresh theoretical perspectives in understanding the Philippine state as a complex assemblage of networks of distrust. Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr. is professor at the University of Queensland Table of Contents Chapter One: The Pathological Philippine Public Administration System: Dysfunctional Bureaucracy, Systemic Corruption and Weak Rule of Law Chapter Two: Patronage Politics and Patron-Client Ties: Interrogating Dominant Paradigms Chapter Three: Corruption, Electoral Reforms and Wicked Problems: Assessing Automation of Elections as Electoral Engineering Chapter Four: May 2010 Automated Elections for the Office of the President: Reformation Or Restoration? Chapter Five: May 2010 Automated Elections for Philippine Senators: Change Or Continuity? Chapter Six: Networks of (Dis)Trust: Theorising beyond Patronage Politics
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The Philippines and the International Monetary Fund Negotiations on Petroleum and Imports Toward a Theory of Negotiation By Kenneth Faulve-Montojo
October 2018 324 pages
This book examines the Philippine–International Monetary Fund negotiations on petroleum and imports from 1984 to 1994. It develops a midrange theory with which to examine country–IMF negotiations.
Hardback 9781498532693 $115.00
Kenneth Faulve-Montojo is a lecturer at Santa Clara University. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Background of the Philippines and the IMF Chapter 2: IMF-GOP 1984 Petroleum Price Observation Chapter 3: IMF-GOP 1986 Petroleum Price Observation Chapter 4: IMF-GOP 1989 Petroleum Price Observation Chapter 5 IMF-GOP 1991 Petroleum Price Observation Chapter 6 IMF-GOP 1994 Petroleum Price Observation Chapter 7 IMF-GOP 1984 Import Observation Chapter 8 IMF-GOP 1986 Import Observation Chapter 9 IMF-GOP 1989 Import Observation Chapter 10 IMF-GOP 1991 Import Observation Chapter 11 IMF-GOP 1994 Import Observation Chapter 12 Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
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Building Global Labor Solidarity Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States
BUILDING GLOBAL LABOR SOLIDARITY
By Kim Scipes
August 2020 332 pages
This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFLCIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.
Hardback 9781793631503 $120.00
Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.
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Disaster Archipelago Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines Edited by Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria and Will Smith
November 2019 306 pages Hardback 9781498569934 $115.00
This interdisciplinary collection examines the complex nature of disaster—typhoons, floods, earthquakes, and drought—in the Philippines. The contributors analyze the challenges of the country's internal heterogeneity of language, ethnicity, and class and its effect on responses to natural disaster. Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Santo Tomas. Will Smith is associate research fellow at Deakin University.
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Fast Food Globalization in the Provincial Philippines By Ty Matejowsky
December 2017 172 pages Hardback 9780739139882 $90.00
Ty Matejowsky examines the rise and popularity of corporate fast food in the provincial Philippines from an anthropological perspective. Based on more than 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork, he shows how this global restaurant format has been indigenized and reimagined by native entrepreneurs and everyday diners into something distinctly Filipino. Ty Matejowsky is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Fast Food as Global Metaphor: Sociocultural Perspectives on Fast Food Globalization 1970s–2010s Chapter 2: Of Burgers and Bees: Corporate Fast Food in the Philippines 1980s–2010s Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Local Fast Food Scenes: Corporate Fast Food in Dagupan City, Pangasinan and San Fernando City, La Union 1980s–2010s Chapter 4: The Young and the Hungry: Fast Food and Children 2000s–2010s Chapter 5: Jollibesity? Intersections of Fast Food, Health, Nutrition, and Obesity 2000s–2010s
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