People Power: Insurgency in the Philippines, 1983-1986 (T.O.S.) COIN Series Volume XI You can say that the story of "People Power" in the Philippines started with one airplane arriving in Manila and ended with another one departing. On August 21, 1983, exiled opposition leader Benigno ...
- novels of the Southern Song and Qing dynasties Torgny Lindgren: Bathsheba - an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David Amin Maalouf: Balthasar's Odyssey - a novel of signs and portents in the year 1666 Amin Maalouf: Ports of Call - family, love and war, in...
Among the greatest heroes of the Philippines, Jose Rizal was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, famous for his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal was one of the proponents of the Filipino Pro...
Deacon Cole and the rest of Patrol Easy hoped that they had seen their last combat for a while, but they soon find themselves in the first wave during the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944. They witness the bold military leader General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore even as Japanes...
Huck Finn rides again: Reverberations of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the twentieth-century novels of Cormac McCarthy This dissertation examines the intertextual significance of Mark Twain's to the works of a major contemporary American writer: Cormac McCarthy. As many sch......
By 1889, England & European countries were at war again, this time in Africa Conflict & change of power led to the start of the American-Spanish War The Philippines became independent of Spain, & China leased Hong Kong territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years College sports were inven...
The hall developed a kind of legendary status as a center for introduction of the most glamorous aspects of European high culture, and became featured in several popular Japanese novels. Many of the most notable European musicians residing in Japan during the Meiji period were reportedly frequent ...
Dime novels regularly featuredextreme situations that had become rare in most people’s everyday lives as ur-banization and technological progress for the first time promised relative secu-rity and predictability.24Over time, every facet of the nation’s past at thewestern peripheries solidified ...
1 Uncannily attuned to the way pop fashions mirror larger shifts in historical reality, Kerouac saw his "true-story novels" as a "contemporary historical record for future times . . . [of] what really happened and what people ... Douglas,Ann - 《Reviews in American History》 被引量: 0...