Customer Review: To a Westerner, the Philippines is a mass of contradictions. A country in which the most vocal calls for representative democracy can come from an unelected, unaccountable male leader of the catholic church; a society in which national identity and patriotic culture are expressed through foreign... more info
Customer Review: Gerald Astor is one of those guys who writes oral history of various World War II battles. This is one of his books, a pretty good one, but since the battle is so complicated things get a little lost. The Philippines were the setting for a considerable amount of fighting during World War II.... more info
Customer Review: Gordon L Rottman's The Cabanatuan Prison Raid is the third volume in Osprey's new RAID series and it provides a very thorough and readable account of this famous Ranger operation. Since this volume covers a POW rescue mission in the midst of the U.S. liberation of the Philippines in 1945, it has... more info
Customer Review: Colonial medicine has been a major issue of debate in social science these years. One reason for that is the emergence of globalization that elevates previous colonies to the focus of attention because of their roles in the global system of production and their peculiar political configurations. No... more info
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