Davao 1890 - 1910: Conquest and Resistance in the Garden of the Gods by Macario D. Tiu (Out of Print)

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On my first reading of the manuscript, I immediately said to myself, "It's a thriller. It is agonizing. It is ecstatic." It is a thriller because that was how I felt from the first line to the last; agonizing because I sympathized with Prof. Tiu when he faced almost certain failure in his interview because I had traveled virtually with him the last moment of his search so felt the ecstasy of his finding the direct descendants of Mangulayon. The book explores a relatively new brand of historiography, at least in the Philippines--that history must be written from the people's point of view, an approach that will remain a myth and an abstract theory until it is unraveled with each historical experience like this one. It is a method of research: investigative, sensitive to the feelings of informant, passionately persistent. The key to the author's success is his passion for the story and his basic curiosity. Every historian must possess passion for history. Drawing from his example, I would encourage literary writers to venture into local history research. -Rugy Buhay Rodil
A Philippine import.

Publisher: University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (January 1, 2003)
Language: English
Paperback: 374 pages
ISBN-10: 971742082-3
ISBN-13: 978-97-1-742082-0