This book examines the lives of the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following.Instead of focusing on national heroes, this volume f
Glimpses of village life during a tumultuous period of Thai historySet in northern Thailand during the mid-1970s, the stories in this collection capture a period of dramatic social and economic change
Andres Bonifacio, the leader of the Philippine Revolution of 1896, has become one of the country’s great national heroes. He is celebrated in history textbooks read by millions of young Filipinos.
Mining a wealth of archival sources in France and Vietnam, Pierre Brocheux constructs a fascinating picture of how French capital and technology transformed the Mekong Delta. By draining the swamps an
