...Glenn Anthony May 292 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES particularly useful for those chapters that challenge other views regarding the policybased origins of Vietnam's transformation. ADAM FFORD Australian National University Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro Andal Agoncillo. By AMBETH R. O...

... (Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1987). WALTER HAUSER University of Virginia SOUTHEAST ASIA The Burden of Proof: The Laurel-Vargas Collaboration Case. By TEODORO A. AGONCILLO. Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 1984. xii, 462 pp. $28.00. (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press) This final...

... in particular. It is 292 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES particularly useful for those chapters that challenge other views regarding the policybased origins of Vietnam's transformation. ADAM FFORD Australian National University Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro Andal Agoncillo. By AMBETH R. O C A M P O...

...Edgar Wickberg Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic . By Teodoro A. Agoncillo . Quezon City : University of the Philippines , 1960 , xvi, 831 , Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 92 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The author...

...." But what of intellectuals nificant commentary on the concerns of the who were leaders of the Revolution? Must an previous historiography of the Revolution that intellectual be a member of the anti-revolution- one of the major criticisms of Agoncillo's ary "middle class"? Does a non-rich intellectual...

... (see S. Cammann, on Bonifacio; this one focusses on Aguinaldo "Toggles and Toggle-wearing," Southwestern and Mabini. One is impressed by the exhaus- Journal of Anthropology, XVI, i960, pp. 463- tiveness of Agoncillo's research. Archival ma- 475)- terial in the United States and interviews of The method...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEW SOUTHEAST ASIA 191 in Manila may provide an explanation for the anger toward the United States so evident throughout the text. An ardent nationalist, Agoncillo cannot conceal his deep distaste for Roxas, an "inveterate pro-American" whose chief...

... The most appealing sections of the book are those in which Agoncillo turns away from the theory and practice of history. He provides informed and thoughtful comments about Tagalog linguistics and early-twentieth-century Tagalog periodical literature. There are intriguing details about his youth (his early...

... SOUTHEAST ASIA 1077 academy, Ileto opens by chiding rival historians Teodoro Agoncillo and Milagros Guerrero as nationalists who have failed to challenge the "established notion that among the blessings of American colonial rule was a sanitary regime which saved countless Filipino lives" (p. 51). From...

... according to orderly sequence mentarily to waylay critical propriety. The es- in time. Majul is not yet as practiced a writer says on women writers and the Filipino theatre, as Teodoro Agoncillo, whose books The Re- although more legitimate, are occasionally su- volt of the Masses (1956) and Malalos...

... among students of the Philippines . . . , contradicted the hegemonic view of Filipino-Spanish entanglement as an unqualified boon to Filipinos" (p. 57), somehow overlooking works by (to name a few) Ileto, Rafael, Agoncillo, Guerrero, or Scott. She assesses colonialism's impact as one that is as chronic...

... to Filipinos" (p. 57), somehow overlooking works by (to name a few) Ileto, Rafael, Agoncillo, Guerrero, or Scott. She assesses colonialism's impact as one that is as chronic as it is concealed: "Acknowledging themselves as victims and understanding how they were victimized are today the most urgent challenges...

...-serving and therefore unreliable. Having eliminated these crucial sources, May concludes that too little evidence remains to support Bonifacio's current reputation. In the final two chapters, the author considers the work of two major Filipino historians, Teodoro Agoncillo and Reynaldo Ileto, who have...

... of Virginia SOUTHEAST ASIA The Burden of Proof: The Laurel-Vargas Collaboration Case. By TEODORO A. AGONCILLO. Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 1984. xii, 462 pp. $28.00. (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press) This final book by the leading Philippine historian of his generation makes...

... the Agoncillos on the one hand and the interrelated Marella and Villavicencio families on the other. All three were wealthy families with extensive landholdings in Taal and adjoining towns. In some Philippine towns, factional divisions originated in or were reinforced by events during the revolution...

... Manglapus. Personal affection seems mo- their implications according to orderly sequence mentarily to waylay critical propriety. The es- in time. Majul is not yet as practiced a writer says on women writers and the Filipino theatre, as Teodoro Agoncillo, whose books The Re- although more legitimate...

... and the Filipino theatre, as Teodoro Agoncillo, whose books The Re- although more legitimate, are occasionally su- volt of the Masses (1956) and Malalos: The perficial informative largely through enumera- Crisis of the Republic (i960) constitute, along tion, rather than through penetration. with this study...

... sources of data are Philippine legal cases as well as the works of some eminent Filipino authors like Teodoro Agoncillo, Conrado Benitez, Teodoro M. Kalaw and Cesar Adib Majul, among others. The book is divided into ten chapters with five appendices (the texts of the Malolos Constitution, President...

... Agoncillo's Revolt of the Masses published in 1957. In essence, this interpretation sees the Philippine revolution as having a much broader base than has previously been understood and as having had radical social and economic goals. Unfortunately for Professor Majul, while his data fully supports his...

..., the wartime dialectics dealt with sik Lee on Korea, Teodoro Agoncillo on the Phil- methods; no one was allowed to publicly question ippines, T. H. Silcock and Ungku Aziz on Malaya, the basic goal of expansion. One wonders what a and Ba Maw on Burma. U Nu would have given a liberal critic such as Kiyosawa...