by Florentino Rodao
Fascists in the Philippines is a global story, largely due to the combination of the Commonwealth’s beginnings in 1935 and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a few months later. On the on hand, this book deals with the rupture of the Spanish community. The Falangists challenged the power of traditional families as never before. On the other hand, the book shows how the Spanish legacy became politicized during these years. Until then, th Spanish heritage had been widely embraced and had even acquired an anti-colonial dimension; the number of newspapers sold in Spanish, for example, was only slightly less than those printed in English.
While the ideological framework of fascism favored the Falangists’ struggle against the power of the oligarchy, the new image of Spain, stained with blood, poverty and radicalism, astonished a Filipino society that associated Spain with modernity and Spaniards with “distinguished” individuals. Relations with the United States and Japan influenced the evolution of the Commonwealth, bu so did evens that unfolded thousands of miles away, from the invasion of Ethiopia to the Spanish Civil War. The rise of fascism, in short, is a crucial framework for understanding the Philippine path to independence.
Status: Available, In Stock
Price: PHP625.00
ISBN: 9789715383950
Author: Floentino Rodao
Genre: History
No. Of Pages: 359
