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Making Mindanao
Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 235
- ISBN
- 9789715503495
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
How Cotabato and Davao were drawn into the Philippine state in the first half of the twentieth century, through the datus and settler elites who learned to work it, and what that made of Mindanao politics.
This study compares the provinces of Cotabato and Davao to show how the Philippine state took hold in Mindanao. It covers the American colonial period from 1900 to 1941 and the years after independence up to martial law in 1972.
Patricio N. Abinales argues that local power was shaped by the building of the state, not only by ethnicity or ideology. The state could rule this frontier because the strongmen who controlled it came to terms with each other and with Manila. Southern Mindanao stayed stable until Ferdinand Marcos changed the rules in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The book is a revised version of his doctoral thesis at Cornell University.
Abinales grew up in Ozamiz City and teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ateneo de Manila University Press later issued an expanded 20th anniversary edition.
From thefilipinochronicle.com, mindanews.com, unipress.ateneo.edu.
HistoryPolitics and governanceColonial period
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