The Philippines and the Filipinos

FROM THE FOREWARD: Here is a book to shatter the peace of mind of academic historians. Mrs. Nakpil is a leprechaun let loose in the archives.She is a storyteller, which most historians aren’t. And so she makes history come alive, when all most textbooks can do is bury it with honors.See them there, the academic historians, busily, if short-sightedly collecting clues to the nature of pre-Spanish Philippine society, as squirrels nuts. And all at once Mrs. Nakpil bursts in on them with the masterly insight that pre-Spanish Philippine society was ‘ a ramshackle fun palace ’. What academic historian would not give his (or her) right arm, let alone his (or her) microfilm reader, to have hit upon so felicitous a phrase?May I humbly suggest that it [this book] be made required reading for history professors. Read more