Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines Volume 4

by John D. Blanco

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520255194
• ISBN13: 9780520255197
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"