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Quezon City · since 1972
The Jesuit university’s press, the Philippines’ largest publisher of history and social science, with the deepest list on Mindanao and Sulu.

1991Out of print
Liberalism and the Quest for Islamic Identity in the PhilippinesKenneth E. Bauzon
How the liberal state and the Moro search for an Islamic political identity have failed to meet, by a Filipino political scientist.

2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
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.

2001In print
MagosahaH. Arlo Nimmo
Nimmo’s return to the Sama Dilaut three decades on: the full ethnography of a people who had by then mostly come ashore.

2004In print
The Great IslandMiguel A. Bernad
Essays on the exploration of Mindanao and the Christian missions there from the sixteenth century on, by a Jesuit historian who spent his later life in Cagayan de Oro.

2005In print
UkkilLigaya Fernando-Amilbangsa
The carved, woven and worked ornament of Sulu, ukkil, in a large illustrated study by the dancer and scholar who spent her life recording the archipelago’s arts.

2007In print
Mindanao Ethnohistory beyond NationsShinzo Hayase
Maguindanao, Sangir and Bagobo as peoples of one sea rather than of two countries, in a history that crosses the border with Indonesia the way they did.

2008In print
People of the Middle GroundRonald K. Edgerton
A hundred years in the Bukidnon–Lanao borderlands, where Maranao, Lumad, settlers and the state met and sometimes made terms.

2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.

2010In print
Voices from Sulued. Gerard Rixhon
Tausug epics, tales, songs and sayings recorded over forty years in Sulu, with translations, from the founder of the journal Sulu Studies.

2014In print
Insurgents, Clans, and StatesFrancisco J. Lara Jr.
Why the conflict keeps returning: the clans, the rebel fronts and the state as rival sources of authority in Muslim Mindanao, and the shadow economy that sustains all three.
2019In print
Marawi and Other PoemsSimeon Dumdum Jr.
Poems by a Cebuano poet and retired judge, the title poem among them written on the siege of Marawi.