The Philippines : what everyone needs to know /
Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperial rivalries and the globalization process. From its role as the main base of Spain's Pacific Galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by the Un...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | What everyone needs to know.
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Table of Contents:
- Geography, demography, and climate
- History: "300 years in a convent, 50 years in Hollywood," then on its own
- Economy
- Society, culture, and religion
- Government and governance
- Geopolitics and the future: The Philippines in the world.