Frontier Constitutions Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines - Asia Pacific Modern
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Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions-expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520255197 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 13 Mar 2009 |
DEWEY: | 959.902 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 372 |
Weight: | 714g |
Height: | 158mm |
Width: | 235mm |
Spine width: | 35mm |