Showing papers by "Filomeno V. Aguilar published in 2000"

Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island

Abstract: \"This book is truly a fabulous tale in all senses of the word.... Aguilar combines innovation and sound scholarship to provide insights into another dimension of the Filipino past and substantially expands our conceptualization of 'history from below'.\" --American Historical Review, October 2000 \"In addition to being a talented researcher, Aguilar writes with ease and grace. His book is particularly insightful, albeit a definite downer.\" --Journal of Asian Studies, August 2000 \"This is a world-class original work in which the author, Filomeno Aguilar, combines the skills of a historian, political scientist, anthropologist, and even a bit of an economist in a fascinating inquiry on the history of the island of Negros.... A delightful book.\" --Pilipinas

Nationhood and transborder labor migrations : The late twentieth century from a late nineteenth-century perspective

Abstract: This paper seeks to provide a perspective on contemporary Philippine labor migrations by viewing this phenomenon in light of analogous transborder movements of workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on information about so-called Manilla men in Australia and British Malaya, the paper discusses living and working conditions of migrant workers in the earlier period. The paper takes up the broader context of indentured work in the nineteenth century and the reaction by such countries of origin as China and Japan to interrogate the pervasive sense of shame and victimization felt in present-day Philippines arising from the export of labor. The broad parameters of the Philippine national narrative are explored in view of the continuities and changes in the relationship between national identity and long-distance movements of workers.

The Republic of Negros

Abstract: Cet article se penche sur les differentes acceptions recouvertes par la notion de Republique de Negros dans l'historiographie des Philippines. L'A. cherche a montrer que dans le contexte revolutionnaire de la fin du XIX siecle aux Philippines, l'apellation Republique de Negros reflete mal le statut et les particularites de l'Ile de Negros, marquee par les interets des plantations sucrieres et par l'acceptation du protectorat americain