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Peripheries : histories of anti-marginality /

Aguilar, Filomeno V. Jr.,

Peripheries : histories of anti-marginality / Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. - xvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Reframing Philippine National History -- The local as National history: questioning our categories -- A failure of imagination? The nation in narratives of the 1896 Philippine revolution -- The fulcrum of structure- agency: history and sociology of sugar haciendas in colonial Negros -- Sugar histories: peripheral strategies vis-a-vis the center -- Beyond inevitability: the opening of provincial ports in 1855 -- Sugar planter- state relations and sharecropping in colonial Negros haciendas -- Masonic myths and revolutionary feats in Negros occidental -- The canton of Negros Island: dreams of federalism and the quest for independence in a US protectorate -- Rice histories: peripheral struggles for social reproduction -- The emergence of an Agrarian proletariat in small-scale rice farming, 1960s-1970s -- The peasant as capitalist: beyond the categories if ideal-typical capitalism -- Occupy: land struggles in rural Asia and the defense of petty commodity production -- Rice and magic: a cultural history from the precolonial world to the present.

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Marginality, Social--History.--Philippines
Culture conflict--History.--Philippines
Social conflict--History.--Philippines

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