The Government of the Philippine Islands: Its Development and Fundamentals (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

George A. Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133091287X ISBN 13 : 9781330912874

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For a number of years, I have valiantly resisted the temptation to write a book on the Philippines. I should not have been in a scanty company if I had, for the Philippines have served as a favorite topic for the ready pen of many writers. The casual tourist has described the I slands, its people, and its problems without real investigation, but yet with solemn finality and comical frankness, often to the amusement of the Filipinos who see themselves and their country held up as tremendous psychological enigmas (see Epifanio de los Santos, 1P hilippine Law Journal, p. 247). Others have found a field for controversy in which all facts are made to substantiate a preconceived theory. Needless to say some few good books on the Philippines have been written. But if anyone has tried, as I have, to read everything available on the Philippines, they will realize the immense mass of chaflf of bias and misinformation which covers up the grains of facts and truth (see Le Roy, Philippine Life in Town and Country, pp. 12, 13). A few words, therefore, may be permitted as to why still another Philippine volume is deemed necessary and as to what purpose it is intended to fulfil. The few books which have touched the political and administrative side, of the Philippines William H. Taft, Civil Government in the Philippines, Felipe Calderon, ABC del Ciudadano Filipino (ABC of Filipino Citizenship), Pedro A. Paterno, Gobierno Civil de las Islas Filipinos (C ivil Government of the Philippine I slands), Dudley O. Mc Govney, Civil Government in the. Philippines, and Prescott
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133091287X
• ISBN 13: 9781330912874
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 814
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