History and Culture, Language and Literature (Selected Essays of Teodoro A. Agoncillo)
Description
If there is one thing that Agoncillo was passionate about, it is the writing of Philippine history from the "Filipino point-of-view". As early as the 1940's, he had lectured on the necessity of re-writing our history in such a way as to view it from the Filipino standpoint. He felt that the facts of our history must be re-evaluated in order to purge our textbooks of the misconceptions and misrepresentations that have corrupted them for generations. He said that in "reading the books and accounts of the history of the Philippines...by the Spanish missionaries and govern...
ISBN(s)
9715062202, 9789715062206
