Rhetorical Indios: Propagandists and their publics in the Spanish Philippines

Academic Article

Abstract

  • Censorship notwithstanding, the final half-century of Spanish rule in the Philippines was a time of efflorescence in colonial print culture. Between the advent of typo-lithography in 1858 and the successive occurrence, in 1896 and 1898, of the Filipino revolution and the Spanish-American War, printing presses operating in Manila and beyond issued thousands of books and periodicals, the first public library, the Muséo-Bibliotéca de Filipinas, opened its doors in 1887, and the importation of books from Europe and America could scarcely keep pace with demand.
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    Status

    Publication Date

  • April 2007
  • Has Subject Area

    Keywords

  • 1800-1899
  • Capitan Juan(1874)
  • Si tandang Basio Macunat(1885)
  • Catholic Church
  • Herrero, Casimiro
  • Lucio y Bustamante, Miguel(b. 1842)
  • Philippine literature
  • Spanish colonialism
  • Tagalog language literature
  • nationalism
  • novel
  • propaganda
  • reader
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 243
  • End Page

  • 275
  • Volume

  • 49
  • Issue

  • 2