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Frontier Constitutions Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines 1st Edition

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Full Title

Frontier Constitutions Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines 1st Edition

Author(s)

John D. Blanco

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780520943698, 9780520255197

Publisher

University of California Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions—expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.