...J. Eliseo Rocamora Popular Uprisings in the Philippines, 1840–1940 . By David R. Sturtevant . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1976 . 317 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $17.50 The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines . By Benedict J...

...Bruce Nussbaum Huk: Philippine Agrarian Society in Revolt . By Eduardo Lachica , Manila : Solidaridad Publishing House , 1971 , viii, 331 pp. Illustrations, Annexes, Index, $10.75. distributed through the Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... Henry T. , Hocano Rice Farmers ( Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1971 ). 6 Gamos Benjamin , “ Military Has Stock Tag for Gunmen—Huks ” Manila Chronicle , 20 March 1972 p. 12. (Emphases are added.) 7 The term “moral indignation” is from Lupsha Peter...

... and reintegration of peasant life than is normally associated with the evolution of revolution. Furthermore, an important role for the State in precipitating the actual violence within situations of protest is suggested by Lachica. In reviewing die history of the Huks, one is immediately struck by the numerous...

..., will be missed by Malaysianists. K. MULLINER Ohio University My Brother, My Executioner. By F. SIONIL JOSE. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1979. 187 pp. $8.25 (paper). (Distributed in U.S. by The Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.) Contrary to the book cover's claim, this is not a novel about the Huk rebellion...

... (paper). (Distributed in U.S. by The Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.) Contrary to the book cover's claim, this is not a novel about the Huk rebellion in the Philippines. That uprising in Central Luzon during the 1950s is, however, the backdrop for a drama featuring a poet and journalist, named Luis...

... to describe Southeast Asian rural politics as a series of balanced exchanges between social unequals. Kerkvliet, then working on his doctoral dissertation with Scott, applied this equilibrium model to a study of the Huk peasant revolt in Central Luzon (1946-1954), showing how the decline of reciprocal...

...," but his sections on the American contribution after 1900, the colonial economy, and the Huks read like so much of what has been written in the past by Americans. His analysis of the colonial economy fostered by the United States is clear but he refuses to PAUL W. VAN DER VEUR draw the obvious conclusions...

... fully, the present volume makes no significant 1948. He places the onus of the events of those contribution to that enterprise. years on two groups of men: the unswerving It would have been helpful to readers had Bolshevik-Stalinist group within the Huk or- the translators done three things with respect...

... of the Philippine elite following the defeat of Japan; the use of rehabilitation legislation to squeeze economic and military concessions from Manila; the application of American military power to suppress the Huks; and the American role in Ramon Magsaysay's rise to the Philippine presidency. Although the general...

... concessions from Manila; the application of American military power to suppress the Huks; and the American role in Ramon Magsaysay's rise to the Philippine presidency. Although the general contours of contemporary Philippine-American relations are familiar, Shalom's skillful presentation of new data adds...

..., with little analysis; this section is already superseded and dated. Lightfoot promises us a different perspective on the Philippines since he is not a "North American," but his sections on the American contribution after 1900, the colonial economy, and the Huks read like so much of what has been written...

.... Its metaphor suggests the violence of the ideological contest ahead, now that the Communist probe in the Philippines is not among provincial Huks but among campus intellectuals and mercantile interests. Furthermore, The Philippines and the United States: Problems of Partnership is clearly designed...

...; rice; sugar; the other main products; labor; agrarian unrest). Short chapters follow on "the pleasure-loving Filipinos" (e.g., athletics, hunting, dance, fiestas, movies defense and public order, including 7 pages on "the Huk headache" and "the Communist invasion" ("The Huks have a legitimate cause...

... preserve undemocratic features of Philippine politics. Remarkably elided or given very slight mention is the role of the Americans in preserving the dominance of landed elites, especially when threatened by movements from below, most notably the role of Edward Lansdale in the suppression of the Huks...

... die-hards who constantly conspired against Taruc and his group and whose planning was responsible for the disasters which overtook the Hukbalahap in the two or three years immediately preceding Taruc's surrender. Undoubtedly, the death of his beloved Liza (which occurred in the raid on the Huk camp...

..., Index. $17.50 The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines. BY BENEDICT J. KERKVLIET. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xvii, 305 pp. Tables, Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $16.00 Recent interest in peasant societies and cultures is a welcome antidote to the elite...

... of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Lee Julian C. H. 2010 . Islamization and Activism in Malaysia . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies . Lee Julian C. H. . 2011 . Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society...

...; that the times of Japanese defeat and Huk activity were periods of tragedy and flight; and that the Protestant missionaries' conversions exacerbated internal cleavages. Clearly we need both types of histories. It is equally apparent, though, thanks to this book by Fry, that we now must focus on the various...