EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Focus on Old Manila

Download or read book Focus on Old Manila written by Mauro Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Manila

Download or read book Old Manila written by Ramon Ma Zaragoza and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philippines

Download or read book The Philippines written by David Joel Steinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability.It is not possible to comprehend the many changes in the Philippines?such as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled him?without an awareness of the religious, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the history of these islands. These forces formed the focus of the first edition of The Philippines. Of that 1982 edition, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that ?anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his '`'must' reading list.?The fourth edition has been updated through the final years of the Ramos presidency, and contains a new section on the impact of President Estrada.

Book Conduct Under Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Glusman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-04-25
  • ISBN : 1101117842
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Conduct Under Fire written by John A. Glusman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn’t protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan’s major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.

Book The Language of the Sangleys

Download or read book The Language of the Sangleys written by Henning Klöter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.

Book Carlos L  Quirino s Old Manila

Download or read book Carlos L Quirino s Old Manila written by Carlos Quirino and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philippines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Richardson
  • Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Philippines written by Jim Richardson and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Search of Southeast Asia

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Joel Steinberg
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824811105
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book In Search of Southeast Asia written by David Joel Steinberg and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia

Book The Hybrid Tsinoys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juliet Lee Uytanlet
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 1498229050
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The Hybrid Tsinoys written by Juliet Lee Uytanlet and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hybrid Tsinoys is a study of hybridity and homogeneity as sociocultural constructs in the development of current ethnic identity/ies of Chinese Filipinos. This study employs a descriptive ethnographic research method to discover how they see or define themselves in terms of ethnicity (Chinese, Filipino, or both) and how their perspectives affect other aspects of their lives (language, marriage, and family). The research proposes that there are different kinds of Chinese Filipinos as evidenced in the six classifications in chapter 4. Further, most of them have constructed a hybrid culture exclusively and uniquely their own. On the one hand, they are still attached to their cultural roots; on the other hand, they cannot evade the fact that they are influenced by their host country and the present global and migratory age we live in. Second-, third-, and fourth-generation Chinese Filipinos demonstrate their hybridity in language and mindset. This dissertation also lays out some challenges in relation to doing mission among them.

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of History

Download or read book The Journal of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manila  1645

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pedro Luengo
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-10-08
  • ISBN : 1000197581
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Manila 1645 written by Pedro Luengo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within Southeast Asia, situated between the Chinese and the Sulú Seas, and located in the centre of commercial routes used by Armenian, Dutch, and Portuguese traders. This historical and geographical context is crucial to understanding later cultural dialogues. Urban planning, housing and architecture, and social networks in the city are also examined. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in early modern history, global history and architectural history.

Book The Khaki Cabinet and Old Manila

Download or read book The Khaki Cabinet and Old Manila written by Walter Robb and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Development and Civil Society

Download or read book Urban Development and Civil Society written by Michael Carley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to market-driven and public-private sector initiatives, which can marginalize the intended beneficiaries - the urban poor - from decision making and implementation. This text outlines the essential conditions for effective urban planning and management by placing bottom-up community initiatives at the heart of the push for equitable and sustainable development in cities. Crucially, the state must engage with both the market and civil society in pursuit of sustainable cities. Presenting a wide-ranging selection of case studies in rapidly urbanizing and transitional countries, from the poorest parts of Africa and Asia to the relatively developed United Kingdom, the authors describe and analyze innovations in how globally disadvantaged urban communities can be engaged in improving their living environments.

Book In Transition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jose Victor Z. Torres
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book In Transition written by Jose Victor Z. Torres and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War  Trade and Piracy in the China Seas  1622 1683

Download or read book War Trade and Piracy in the China Seas 1622 1683 written by Weichung Cheng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire’s maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese commercial interests in the East and South China Seas. The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Ch’eng-kung—alias Coxinga—and his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in China’s southeastern coastal provinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.