Philippine-American War | The Path to Independence | 5
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Revolutionary Revolutions in the Philippines
iam interested in these moments in which, even though there could be resistance over 300 years, suddenly, in this one period, thereis 20 years of incredible strife and a lot of change. What was it about this that differentiated it from the previous 300 years? By the nineteenth century, enormous amount of transformations had occurred. So dissatisfaction with colonial rule was qualitatively transformed. And what happened was that certain groups of people began to think of themselves no longer as colonial subjects subject to the absolute rule the spanish king. The learned, the western eys, the deliterate and fairly wealthy groups of people in the philippines started to think of their own condition as analogous to what was
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