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Swish of the Kris
The Story of the Moros
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Year
- 1936Reprinted by Orchid Press, 2009, and Cerberus Books, 2011
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780615382425
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
A popular history of the Moros and their wars with Spain and the United States, by an American who had lived in Zamboanga; vivid, partisan and long the only book of its kind in English.
This is a popular history of the Moros and their long wars, written for American readers by Vic Hurley and published in New York by E. P. Dutton. Library records list its subjects as the Muslims of the Philippines and the history of Mindanao.
Hurley went to the Philippines in 1925 and started a coconut plantation in the interior of Mindanao, which failed. He then spent 7 years in Zamboanga managing American companies and was made an honorary third lieutenant in the Philippine Constabulary. He left in 1934 and drew on these years for this book and for Jungle Patrol, his history of the Constabulary.
The book has been reprinted, including by Orchid Press in 2009 with photographs and maps from the author's own collection, and by Cerberus Books.
From en.wikipedia.org, openlibrary.org, ortigasfoundationlibrary.com.ph.
Cover from Open Library, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
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The History of SuluNajeeb M. Saleeby
Sulu from its earliest written genealogies to the American arrival, drawn from the sultanate’s own documents, Spanish records and the author’s years in Jolo. Out of copyright and free to read.
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Mandate in MorolandPeter G. Gowing
How the United States ruled the Moro Province and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, from the Bates Treaty to the start of Filipinization, from the records of the men who governed. Reprinted by New Day in 1983.
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The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898James Francis Warren
The Sulu Sultanate at its height as a trading state: the China trade in sea produce, the slave raiding that fed it, and the peoples it drew in, from Spanish, British and Dutch archives. The book that made the Sulu Zone a field of study. Second edition 2007.