The Social Cancer
The Social Cancer

Author: Jose Rizal

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 1775415627

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Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887. Upon his return to his country, he was summoned to the palace by the Governor General because of the subversive ideas his book had inspired in the nation. Rizal wrote of his consequent persecution by the church: "My book made a lot of noise; everywhere, I am asked about it. They wanted to anathematize me ['to excommunicate me'] because of it ... I am considered a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, they say I am a Protestant, a freemason, a sorcerer, a damned soul and evil. It is whispered that I want to draw plans, that I have a foreign passport and that I wander through the streets by night ..."

The Reign of Greed
The Reign of Greed

Author: José Rizal

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Classic story of the last days of Spanish rule in the Philippines.

Events in the Philippine Islands
Events in the Philippine Islands

Author: Antonio de Morga

Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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First history of the Spanish Phillipines by a layman.

Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities

Author: Benedict Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2006-11-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 178168359X

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.