A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology

The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

This is a richly textured portrait of the generation that created the self-consciousness of the Filipino nation.

In No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-Imperialist m