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Although Filipino cinema dates to the early silent era and shares many characteristics with Western film, it has been frequently ignored by Western critics and audiences. This book offers a rare study of cinema in the Philippines. The first half of the work presents the little-known history of Filipino cinema. Arranged chronologically, chapters cover lost pre-World War II films, the postwar cinema boom, the Philippines' unique relationship with the United States and its manifestation on film, and Filipino cinema's current decline. The second half of the book is the most comprehensive published filmography of Filipino cinema to date. ... Read more

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112 illustrations * 8 pages in color * 7 x 10 ** A remarkable study of an age that incorporated the spirit of the nineteenth-century with the technology of modern aggressionOne hundred years ago American colonial ambition found expression in the seizure and occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China. These military enterprises cast the American Army in a dramatic new role; the G.I.s had to suddenly adapt from policing the American interior to sustaining an international power in far-flung corners of the world. ... Read more

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Good reference on the military around the turn of the century
The U.S. Army changed significantly from a frontier constabulary to a (relatively) modern force during the period of the Boxer Rebellion, the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. Specialty uniforms for overseas service, the adoption of a wider range of specialty badges and a recognition of the need of a more practical hat all changed the look of the military. Illustrated with contemporary artwork and photographs, this book is a great reference on the Army prior to World War One.

Completely Unstructured; Captioned Pictures Only
This little (but not very inexpensive) book consists of a four-page summary of the America's turn-of-the-century colonial wars and a considerable, though very hit-or-miss, collection of captioned illustrations.

During my second read-through I started organizing the random facts into a coherent (though highly conjectural) system of understanding and I noted the few contradictory (at least by implication) captions.During my third and fourth read-throughs, I tweaked my assumptions and formed somewhat informed opinions regarding which captions were more likely to be entirely accurate.Hopefully I have constructed a passing understanding of the subject, but clearly this is an unnecessarily frustrating way to learn.Also, the editing is probably even worse than that of the average book I read.

There are many hints that the author has more than sufficient knowledge to answer my questions; he just seems to have assumed that his audience has no desire for a remotely systematic knowledge of the subject.However, if you are only interested in members of the "big three" branches of the U. S. Army and do not mind doing some deduction, then you may find it satisfactory.

Clear and Interesting Study
The author has produced a slew of photo studies with incisive text on the life and times of the U.S. soldier, and his Spanish and Mexican californio predecessors also. His specialty is in gathering together contemporarysource material for the illustrations. This method has the great virtue ofshowing what was what and when. But if no photos are available, thensomething may be omitted. All of these books are vertical studies coveringa period of years. Though sometimes the illustrations serve to identifyindividual items of equipment, these works are not intended for thatpurpose. They are not catalogs intended for materiel collectors. They areof such a length and of such a level of detail that they will serve thepurposes of the general reader with a curiousity about what grandaddy didin WW II or great great great grandaddy in the Civil War and what he lookedlike and how he lived. This is not to say that the specialist such asmyself cannot find useful nuggets herein. I can. I use these for generalsurveys of periods I do not study in detail, such as the Civil War, and theWar With Mexico, etc. And to look up the odd facts. I have yet to bedisappointed with any of them. ... Read more

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For American troops in the Philippines, December 8, 1941, began with shocking reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by a Japanese air attack on Clark Field in southern Luzon. Deprived of reinforcements, American and Filipino troops surrendered Bataan to the Japanese on April 9, 1942. For the 400 American soldiers who avoided the Bataan Death March and hundreds of others who refused to surrender, escaping the Bataan Peninsula to Luzon was a life-or-death journey.

Among the local families who risked their lives to provide food and shelter to fleeing American soldiers were twin brothers and transplanted American sugar cane farmers Bill and Martin Fassoth. With Bill's Filipina wife Catalina, they ministered to over 100 Americans between April 1942, and April 1943. The stories of the Fassoths, the soldiers they saved and their fates following the Fassoths' surrender to raiding Japanese forces are an important and fascinating chapter of World War II history. ... Read more

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Saving American Lives
Malcolm Decker has written a very readable second book on WWII in the Philippines, this time dealing with the few hundred Americans who either evaded capture or escaped from the Death March following the April 9, 1942 surrender of the Bataan defenders.The heroes of this volume are Filipinos in general and the Fassoth family in particular.The author credits twin brothers Bill and Martin Fassoth and Bill's wife Catalina with saving at least 104 American military men who escaped the Japanese.

The Fassoths, German-American immigrants from Hawaii, ran a successful sugarcane plantation on Luzon.After the surrender, they organized and ran a series of four camps hidden away in the mountains and sheltering American soldiers who escaped from the Japanese.During the year that these camps survived, Bill Fassoth estimated that between 200 and 300 Americans sheltered in them.Most of the men moved on after they recuperated, with many joining guerrilla groups.Others were scattered by a series of five raids the Japanese mounted on these camps. About 100, determined to wait out the war in comparative comfort, did not willingly leave.Many of these were killed, captured or surrendered as the Japanese ratcheted up the pressure.In October, 1943 Bill and Martin Fassoth themselves surrendered when the Japanese offered leniency to those surrendering and death to anyone not turning themselves in.

The author sums up this period by writing that "By October 1943, the Japanese had captured and executed virtually all the major [American] guerrilla leaders on Luzon" (p. 154). Fewer than half of about 400 escaped Americans survived the war.Both Fassoth brothers were among those surviving, but the family was never reimbursed by the U.S. government for the considerable expenses incurred sheltering Americans.

The early chapters of the book briefly describe the defense of Bataan and then follow various small groups of Americans as they fled the battlefield and eventually found their way to the Fassoth camps.The last three chapters deal with the reconstruction of the guerrilla groups shattered by Japanese raids, preparations for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return, and the liberation of the Philippines.

Arguably the Philippine campaigns were the most important of the Pacific theater, as the heroic defense against the Japanese invasion bought enough time for MacArthur to secure Australia, which in turn was the launching point for his drive to liberate the Philippines.And more than half the Japanese military deaths in World War II occurred in the Philippines (p. 197).

J. Michael Houlahan
Historian, Philippine Scouts Heritage Society
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This study of the Battle for Batangas province during the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 is both an account of what life was like for the soldiers and civilians who participated in the war, and a revision of established scholarship that has viewed the masses as the backbone of the conflict. May demonstrates that the lion's share of Philippine resistance came in fact from the political and economic elites rather than the peasantry. Discussing the American side as well as the Philippine, May prefaces his study with a socio-historical probe of the decades immediately preceding the war and considers important aspects of Philippine life such as old-boy networks, family connections, patron-client bonds, municipal politics and political beliefs. He also reevaluates the behaviour of the Americans in the war, arguing that it was neither as unpleasant nor as praiseworthy as it has thus far been portrayed. ... Read more

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This collection brings together essays on the Philippineswritten in the wake of the Cold War and the Marcosregime. Cross-disciplinary by vocation and affiliated by their commonengagement with the intersections of power, representation, andagency, the contributors probe the discrepant histories that underliethe formation of the Philippine nation-state and translocal Filipinocultures: the mestizo social hierarchy, colonial medicine, penalcolonies, nationalist desire, diasporic literatures, gay beautypageants, ideas of everyday violence, and state bulimia in the age ofglobal capitalism.

As Filipinos and non-Filipinos, these writers are alert to andintimate with the distance and difference of their own object ofstudy; they intend their essays on the Philippines to translate,localize, and reassess the stakes in current debates around the studyof colonial modernity, nationalism, and postcoloniality. ... Read more

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ABC-CLIO, acclaimed publisher of superior references on the United States at war, revisits a pivotal moment in AmericaÕs coming-of-age with The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. Again under the direction of renowned scholar Spencer Tucker, the encyclopedia covers the conflict between the United States and Spain with a depth and breadth no other reference works can match.

The encyclopedia offers two complete volumes of alphabetically organized entries written by some of the worldÕs foremost historians, covering everything from the course of the wars to relevant economic, social, and cultural matters in the United States, Spain, and other nations. Featuring a separate volume of primary-source documents and a wealth of images and maps, the encyclopedia portrays the day-to-day drama and lasting legacy of the war like never before, guiding readers through a seminal event in AmericaÕs transition from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era.

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AWARD WINNER
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN AND PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WARS is the Society for Military History 2010 Book Award Winner for Reference.

A winning survey of over 600 alphabetically organized entries covering individuals, battles, weapons and events
The three-volume Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars provides a winning survey of over 600 alphabetically organized entries covering individuals, battles, weapons and events in the U.S., Spain and other countries during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, and is a pick for both military and college-level history holdings specializing in these eras. Expert contributions from a team of scholars of American military history offer detailed articles, while a separate Documents Volume with over 150 primary-source texts provides extensive references suitable for any detailed student report. ... Read more

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William Henry Scott is a Filipino nationalist with a white skin. The 17 essays in this new collection - CRACKS IN THE PARCHMENT CURTAIN - give clear proof of this statement. For here we glimpse unknown facets of Filipino life glinting through the shadows of three centuries of Spanis rule and a turn-of-the century struggle against a new night of foreign aggression. Scott's essays make a Filipino proud to be a Filipino. His patient scholarship among musty books and documents in libraries and archives here and aborad, his travels in the provinces to dig out decaying parish records, and his friendship and interviews with surviving historical resources--all provide intimate glimpses of a virile people yearning for dignity and freedom in the face of inexorable odds. ... Read more

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The Philippines. A cultural middleman between East and West for thousands of years. Where can you find a history of this fascinating island-nation that’s concise yet easy to read? That’s portable enough to be a travel guide yet scholarly enough to be a schoolroom text? Luzano Canlas has written the definitive work on these 7,000 isles and its 75 million people, from its legendary link to Noah to last year’s mineral resource output. ... Read more

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2 Millenium Philippine History
This book is a quick read.It seemed to jump around and not give depth to events.I did not recommend it to my Filipina wife. I was much more impressed with "In Our Image" by Stanley Karnow, and "Little Brown Brother" by Leon Wolfe. Several of the other cultural books of the Philippines include sections of history to help an "outsider" better understand these interesting and enjoyable peoples of the Philippines.This book is an adequate addition to the reading list ... Read more

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Military obligations rested lightly upon the Filipino people for much of the period that America occupied the Philippines, but Filipinos could enlist in the United States Army and Navy, attend the service academies at West Point and Annapolis, or join military organizations restricted to duty in the islands such as the Philippine Scouts, Philippine Constabulary, Philippine National Guard, and the navy's insular force. In the 1930s, the Philippine government established its own armed forces. Throughout much of this time, the U.S. army also kept a substantial portion of its troop strength in the Philippines.

This annotated bibliography of nearly 700 titles highlights the extent and variety of the Philippine-American military experience from the conquest of the islands by the United States in 1902 to the defeat of Philippine and American forces by the Japanese in 1942. The bibliography includes memoirs and biographies of Filipino and American officers and enlisted men (from MacArthur to Ferdinand Marcos), unit histories, army post and navy base histories, medals and insignia books, and the most extensive list of prisoner-of-war memoirs yet published. Annotations address controversies such as the widely disparate estimates of American deaths on the Bataan Death March and include previously unpublished information, such as casualty figures for American and Philippine forces in 1941–1942. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1901.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Philippines; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; ... Read more

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An Authentic History Of The Spanish War; The History Of Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Ladrone And The Hawaiian Islands. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1905.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more