Laguna in American Times (XXXIV edition) by Lewis E. Gleeck, Jr., (Out of Print)

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"Here with the author offers his second history of a Philip-pine province in American times. The story of Laguna is not, on the whole, a happier one than Nueva Ecija. Here, too, disputes between landowner and tenant flared into violence. This occurred against a background dramatically sketched in Jose Rizal's classic novels describing the conflicts between the Friars on the one side and Filipino lessees and tenants on the other. The Spanish executed Rival in 1896, but he continued to cast a long shadow over his home province, whose scenery and fertility contrast so cruelly with scenes of violence. The province's ravishing physical beauty also incorporates, but con-ceals, something else: a mysterious dynamism compounded of ancient myth, beliefs in magic and long-cherished dreams of a better life more responsive to the pronouncements of a prophet than to the promises of politicians. This portion is combustible and easily ignited. Laguna is the heartland both of the Sakdals and of millennialism. There, the Sakdals threatened the young republic in both Commonwealth and Japanese times and had to be vanquished before battle was joined with the Communist Hukbalahaps." -Excerpts from the Preface.
A Philippine import.

ASIN : B007F6T8T6
Publisher : Historical Conservation Society (January 1, 1981)
Language : English
Paperback : 156 pages