{"product_id":"orientalists-propagandists-and-ilustrados-megan-c-thomas-9780816671977","title":"Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe writings of a small group of scholars known as the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Megan C. Thomas shows that the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e' anticolonial project of defining and constructing the \"Filipino\" involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to Thomas, the work of the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing about the peoples and history of the Philippines in the decade or so preceding the revolution. In reexamining the works of the scholars José Rizal, Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, Pedro Paterno, Pedro Serrano Laktaw, and Mariano Ponce, Thomas situates their writings in a broader account of intellectual ideas and politics migrating and transmuting across borders. She reveals how the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e both drew from and refashioned the tools and concepts of Orientalist scholarship from Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogating the terms \"nationalist\" and \"nationalism,\" whose definitions are usually constructed in the present and then applied to the past, Thomas offers new models for studying nationalist thought in the colonial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan C. Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816671974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816671977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012","brand":"Megan C. Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120334729471,"sku":"9780816671977","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59df1565-5a80-4897-98c0-53595010b92d.jpg?v=1687413779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orientalists-propagandists-and-ilustrados-megan-c-thomas-9780816671977","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}