Cracks in the parchment curtain and other essays in Philippine history

History

Scott, William Henry

Americas

New Day Publishers

For the last 30 odd years, P.C. Morantte has been living abroad, and whatever he has written during that period is unknown to local readers. It is therefore very timely that his present collection of inspiration essays be disseminated to the present generation. -Carlos Quirino, Historian

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Bienvenido M. Noriega, Jr.

<p>William Henry Scott is a Filipino nationalist with a white skin. The 17 essays in this new collection - CRACKS IN THE PARCHMENT CURTAIN - give clear proof of this statement. For here we glimpse unknown facets of Filipino life glinting through the shadows of three centuries of Spanish rule and a turn-of-the century struggle against a new night of foreign aggression. Scott's essays make a Filipino proud to be a Filipino. His patient scholarship among musty books and documents in libraries and archives here and abroad, his travels in the provinces to dig out decaying parish records, and his friendship and interviews with surviving historical resources--all provide intimate glimpses of a virile people yearning for dignity and freedom in the face of inexorable odds.</p>

Cracks in the Parchment Curtain, and Other Essays in Philippine History

Filipinos living in the Gran Cordillera Central mountains of Northern Luzon are generally called Igorots; this book tells the dramatic story of their ancestors' response to foreign invasion. For three centuries they resisted assimilation into the Spanish empire, monopolized the richest gold mines in the archipelago, sabotaged the government Tobacco Monopoly, and defied all restrictions on trade with their lowland brethren.

The discovery of the Igorots: Spanish contacts with the Pagans of Northern Luzon

William Henry Scott

Filipinos living in the Gran Cordillera Central mountains of Northern Luzon are generally called Igorots: this book tells the dramatic story of their ancestors' response to foreign invasion. For three centuries they resisted assimilation into the Spanish empire, monopolize3d the richest gold mines in the archipelago, sabotaged the government Tobacco Monopoly, and defied all restrictions on trade with their lowland brethren. With a sweep as vast as the mountains themselves and strokes as bold as the conquistadores, the author paints a unique picture of military and missionary confrontation with a stubborn Filipino culture defending itself by primitive arms against western conquest and conversion. From the archives of Spain and the Philippines come the statements of Spanish aims, mixed motives, and changing imperialist patterns, as well as the Igorot responses as expressed in their actions and direct quotation of their own words. The Discovery of the Igorots persuasively challenges the popular concept of the Igorots as isolated and at enmity with other Filipinos, and presents their story as an integral part of the Spanish colonial experience and the history of the Filipino people.

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