Abstract
Before the Spanish discovery of the Philippines, the native Filipinos came in contact with India, China and Arabia. According to the early records of China, ‘some Filipinos from the country of Ma-i arrived in Canton and sold their merchandise’ as early as 982. The Philippine islands were discovered by Magellan in 1521 and conquered by Spain in 1565. Following the Spanish-American war, the islands were ceded to the USA on 10 Dec. 1898, after the Filipinos had tried in vain to establish an independent republic in 1896.
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Further Reading
Philippine Yearbook 1987. National Statistics Office, Manila, 1987
Foreign Trade Statistics of the Philippines, 1987. National Statistics Office, Manila, 1985
Bresnan, J. (ed.) Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond. Princeton Univ. Press, 1986
Lightfort, K., The Philippines. London, 1973
May, R. J. and Nemenzo, F. (eds.). The Philippines after Marcos. London and Sydney, 1985
Poole, F. and Vanzi, M., Revolution in the Philippines. New York, 1984
Richardson, J. A., Philippines. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara, 1989
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Paxton, J. (1989). Philippines. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271180_132
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