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Excerpts from "The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State"

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Philip Bowring
Jul 03, 2022
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The following is an excerpt from the final chapter of The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State (Bloomsbury Academic) by Philip Bowring, the co-founder of the Asia Sentinel, which was published earlier this month. A review of the book can be found here.

By some measures, the Philippines needs a revolution, to throw off the old elites…

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