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Frontier constitutions : Christianity and colonial empire in the nineteenth-century Philippines / John D. Blanco.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 372 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520943698
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS675 .F766 2009
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Contents:
Subject: Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions--expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Political Communities, "Common Sense," and the Colonial State; Part 1: Shibboleths; 1. Imperial Christendom and the Colonial State; 2. Special Laws and States of Exception; 3. Customs/(Ka) Ugali(an); Part 2: Projects; 4. Publics; 5. Aesthetics; 6. Values/Norms; Part 3: Concatenations; 7. Gothic; Epilogue: Colonialism and Modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions--expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.

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