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This page provides important bibliographic sources on pertinent subjects about the Philippines, including languages and culture. This listing is by no means complete and exhaustive. We are limiting our listing to recent published works since the 1990s. If there are other recent materials that you are familiar with, and would like them included in our list, please e-mail us and we will add them in this list. For older and more complete bibliographic sources, you can search the internet and/or your local libraries. We will continue to update this page regularly.
Tradition
Culture and Customs of the Philippines
Paul A. Rodell / Hardcover / Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated / November 2001
Popular Culture
Geopolitics of the Visible : Essays on Philippine Film Cultures
Rolando B. Tolentino (Editor),Patricio N. Abinales (Editor) / Paperback / Ateneo de Manila University Press / January 2001Palabas: Essays on Philippine Theater History
Doreen G. Fernandez / Paperback / Ateneo de Manila University Press / January 1998Art
Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art
Plug In Editions,Jessica Hagedorn,Catherine Lord,Luis H. Francis / Paperback / Smart Art Press / September 1997Cuisine/Cooking
Dances
Environment/Geography/Flora and Fauna
Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rain Forest
Lawrence R. Heaney,Preface by John W. McCarter,Field Museum Of Natural History / Paperback / Field Museum of Natural History, Division of Publications / July 1998 A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines
Robert S. Kennedy,Timothy H. Fisher,Edward Dickinson,Pedro C. Gonzales,Hector C. Miranda,Jr. / Paperback / Oxford University Press, Incorporated / September 2000
Ethnic Groups/Cultures
Ants for Breakfast: Archaeological Adventures among the Kalinga
James M. Skibo / Paperback / University of Utah Press / November 1999 Ilongot Headhunting 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History
Renato Rosaldo / Paperback / Stanford University Press / April 1994Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850-1898
Edgar Wickberg / Hardcover / Ateneo de Manila University Press / January 2000The Huaqiao Warriors: Chinese Resistance Movement in the Philippines 1942-45
Yung Li Yuk-Wai,Foreword by Norman G. Owen / Paperback / Hong Kong University Press / December 1995Muslims in the Philippines
Cesar Adib Majul / Paperback / University of the Philippines Press / September 1999In the Heart of Filipino America: Immigrants From the Pacific Isles
Filipino-Americans
Ronald T. Takaki,Carol Takaki,Ronald Takaki,Rebecca Stefoff / Library Binding / Chelsea House Publishers / September 1994 After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations
E. San Juan,E. San Juan / Paperback / Rowman & Littlefield, Pubs., Inc. / September 2000Martial Arts/Traditional Weapons
The Secrets of Cabales Serrada Escrima
Mark V. Wiley,Mark V. Wiley / Paperback / Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. / July 2000Complete Sinawali
Pananandata: History and Techniques of the Daga, Yantok, Balisong, and Other Traditional Weapons of the Philippines
Reynaldo S. Galang / Paperback / Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. / June 2000
Arnis: History and Methods of the Filipino Martial Arts
Mark V. Wiley,Mark V. Wiley / Paperback / Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. / May 2001
Amante P. Marinas / Paperback / Paladin Press / January 2002
Marriage/Family
Power And Intimacy In The Christian Philippines
Fenella Cannell / Paperback / Cambridge University Press / March 1999Songs
Women
Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Rise to Power in Post-War Philippines
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers
Mina Roces / Hardcover / Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated / May 1998
Nicole Constable / Paperback / Cornell University Press / May 1997
Online Resources
General
Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures
Vincente L. Rafael / Hardcover / Temple University Press / March 1995The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place, Vol. 4
Historical Dictionary of the Philippines
David Joel Steinberg / Paperback / Westview Press / March 2000
Artemio R. Guillermo, May Kyi Win / Hardcover / Scarecrow Press, Inc. / January 1997An Economic History of the Philippines
Onofre D. Corpuz / Paperback / University of Hawaii Press, The / March 1999
Spanish Period
Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule
Vicente L. Rafael / Paperback / Duke University Press / January 1994American Period
Mixed Blessing: Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines, Vol. 41
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
Hazel M. McFerson (Editor) / Hardcover / Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated / December 2001
Stanley Karnow / Paperback / Random House, Incorporated / April 1990America's Boy: A Century Of Colonialism In The Philippines
Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Phillipine-American Wars
James Hamilton-Paterson / Hardcover / Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated / August 1999
Kristin L. Hoganson / Paperback / Yale University Press / October 2000 Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903
Stuart Creighton Miller / Paperback / Yale University Press / November 1990 Uncle Sam's Little Wars: The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902
J. Phillip Langellier, John P. Langellier / Paperback / Stackpole Books / June 1999The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
Michael Salman / Hardcover / University of California Press / November 2001Japanese Occupation/World War II
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
Maria Rosa Henson,Yuki Tanaka (Introduction) / Paperback / Rowman & Littlefield, Pubs., Inc. / July 1999
Elizabeth M. Norman / Paperback / Pocket Books / May 2000My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March
Lester I. Tenney,Foreword by James B. Stockdale / Paperback / Brassey's, Inc. / September 2000Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines
Hampton Sides,Narrated by James Naughton / Audio / Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Inc. / May 2001
Mary McKay McKay Maynard / Hardcover / Globe Pequot Press / July 2001 Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kenneth I. Friedman / Hardcover / Presidio Press / November 2001 The Huaqiao Warriors: Chinese Resistance Movement in the Philippines 1942-45
Yung Li Yuk-Wai,Foreword by Norman G. Owen / Paperback / Hong Kong University Press / December 1995
Online Resources
Philippine Politics and Economy
Politics
A Changeless Land: Continuity and Change in Philippine Politics
David G. Timberman / Hardcover / Sharpe, M.e., Inc. / November 1991
Philippine Leaders/LeadershipAmerica's Boy: A Century Of Colonialism In The Philippines
James Hamilton-Paterson / Hardcover / Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated / August 1999 Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines: The Political Economy of Authoritarianism
Alberta F. Celoza / Hardcover / Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated / November 1997 Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution
Robert H. Reid,With Eileen Guerrero / Hardcover / Louisiana State University Press / November 1995
Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines
John T Thayer Sidel / Paperback / Stanford University Press / November 1999
Insurgency/Rebellions/Revolutions Art of Insurgency: American Military Policy and the Failure of Strategy in Southeast Asia
Donald W. Hamilton,Foreword by Cecil Barr Currey / Hardcover / Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated / December 1997 States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines
Misagh Parsa / Paperback / Cambridge University Press / October 2000 Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines
Thomas M. McKenna,Barbara D. Metcalf (Editor) / Paperback / University of California Press / August 1998Economy
Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand
Alasdair Bowie,Danny Unger / Paperback / Cambridge University Press / August 1997 Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines
David C. Kang / Paperback / Cambridge University Press / September 2001 An Economic History of the Philippines
Onofre D. Corpuz / Paperback / University of Hawaii Press, The / March 1999Elections/Democratization
Fragile Democracies : Legacies of Authoritarian Rule
Elections and Democratization in the Philippines
Jennifer Franco, Foreword by Benedict J. Kerkvliet / Hardcover / Garland Publishing, Incorporated / October 2000
Gretchen Casper / Paperback / University of Pittsburgh Press / January 1995 Democratization: Philippine Perspectives
Felipe B. Miranda (Editor) / Paperback / University of the Philippines Press / March 1999
Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy
Philippine Military
Alfred W. McCoy / Hardcover / Yale University Press / December 1999
Online Resources
Filipino/Tagalog Language Materials
Filipino Word Book
Teresita V. Ramos,Boboy Betco,Josie Clausen,Jerri Asuncion / Paperback / Bess Press, Incorporated / January 1995
Online Resources
Classics
Noli Me Tangere (Lost Eden)
Jose P. Rizal,Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin,Raul L. Locsin / Paperback / University of Hawaii Press, The / January 1998
Essays/Collections/Anthologies
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
Carlos Bulosan,C. Bulosan,Carey McWilliams (Introduction) / Paperback / University of Washington Press / January 1995Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English
Luis H. Francia (Editor) / Paperback / Rutgers University Press / August 1993Fiction
Dusk (Modern Library Series)
Dead Season: A Story of Murder & Revenge
F. Sionil Jose,Jose F. Sionil / Paperback / Random House, Incorporated / April 1998
Alan Berlow / Paperback / Vintage Books / February 1998
Children's Books
Myths and Folktales
Rockabye Crocodile: A Folktale from the Philippines
Jose Aruego,Ariane Dewey / Paperback / Morrow,William & Co / April 1993 Philippine Folk Tales
Mabel Cook Cole,Fay-Cooper Cole (Illustrator) / Paperback / University Press of the Pacific / April 2000
Online Resources