title: The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance
author: Luzviminda Francisco
description: Political activists Schirmer and Shalom gather here over 80 articles and documents that seek to demonstrate a longtime, popular struggle on the part of Filipinos for social justice and freedom from foreign domination. The selections tell of the past and present U.S. role in the Philippinesfrom the turn-of-the-century U.S. conquest (wresting control of the colony from Spain) to the flight last year of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino's assumption of the presidency. The editors admit that they have not constructed a "neutral book,' but sources include the CIA, the State Department and President Reagan, as well as Philippine nationalist and leftist groups and U.S. opponents of foreign intervention. Partisan, the book raises disturbing questions about the future of our role in the Philippines. This is an educational and timely look at a complex nation. <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: #  RECOLLECTIONS  
  OF  
  MANILLA AND THE PHILIPPINES,
  
  #  DURING 1848, 1849, AND 1850.
  
  ##  BY  
  **ROBERT MAC MICKING, ESQ.**
  
  ##  LONDON:  
  RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,  
  Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.  
  1851.
  
  ##  INTRODUCTION.
  
  The Philippines, in many respects situated most advantageously for trade,
  having long been governed by a people whose notions of government and
  political economy have never produced the happiest results in any of their
  once numerous and important colonies, appear at last to be slowly reaping the
  benefit of the new commercial maxims now in course of operation, in Spain, and
  show symptoms of progressing with increased speed in the march of
  civilization, encouraged by commerce. As such a state is always interesting,
  more especially to my countrymen, whose commercial and manufacturing welfare
  is closely  bound up with the rate at which  civilization advances in every
  part of the world, I have attempted to give some idea of the actual state and
  pr