Roces, Mina. "Gender, Nation and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines." Gender and History 17, no. 2 (August 2005): pp. 354-377.Gender, Nation and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines." In The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, edited by ...
We live in a time of abundance, but in an abstract sense. Resources aren’t from the ground. Their use is often unpredictable, while the unintended consequence of the reunification of billions of people can be chaotic. As some of the great reform legislation of the 19th century has said, ...
33.Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta ByDavid Andrew Biggs;William Cronon Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swa...
DC. We visited four different museums in a single day. First was the Museum of American History, where Hannah got to see a meticulously-decorated dollhouse from the turn of the 20th Century, along with some statuary made of marble and ...
Even Leland Stanford Jr., the namesake of Stanford University, went on a Grand Tour of Europe in the late 19th century with his parents at the age of fifteen, although that journey ended tragically with him catching typhoid in Athens before dying in Florence. In the 19th century, the ...
I ask not merely as an historian’s son, I ask it as a Jew, as a citizen of the world, as someone who’s lived through the 20th century: Have these European leaders learned nothing from history? Will they ever wake up? Well, we in Israel, we don’t need a wakeup call, because...
While the overall objective of religious disturbances can be multifaceted, there is general perception that minorities such as in Southern Thailand and Philippines have coupled their religious interpretations as the more righteous over their national requirements, and vent their anger where they see nation...
led the way.According to the trends of mankind until then, it would take 2 000 years to double the average income. In the mid-19th century, the British did it in 30 years. When Marx died in 1883, the average Englishman was three times richer than he was when Marx was born in 1818...
There is no doubt that the 19th century effloration of so many great novelists, painters, poets, playwrights, architects, social thinkers, and philosophers came out of the rise of middle classes to cultural dominance. The contrast with Siam could not be more striking. So far as I know, Bang...
In another posting on Facebook, he baited police by writing: “Have fun finding me. I’ll be waiting for you or whichever dogs you send,”Australian media reported. Filipino analysts called Cerantonio’s arrest proof that the threat of extremism in the Philippines is “real, rather than imag...