The Philippines

This Philippines CD contains 64 books, some in English, some in Spanish, and some in Tagalog. In addition to works of history, literature, and anthropology, it includes the CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress Country Study of the Philippines.

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Table of Contents:

Context of the contemporary world

• The CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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The Philippines

• Library of Congress Country Study of The Philippines, from 1991
• Appendix to the Country Study

Country Studies were previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.

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The online version can be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

History

• Doctrina Christiana (first book printed in the Philippines, 1593), with a lengthy introduction in English by Edwin Wolf
• The Former Philippines Through Foreign Eyes edited by Austin Craig
• History of the Philippine Islands, volumes 1 and 2, by Antonio Morga
• The Philippine Islands 1493-1898 edited by Emma Blair and James Robertson (total = 55 volumes)
• volume 1 1493-1529
• volume 2 1521-1569
• volume 3 1569-1576
• volume 4 1576-1582
• volume 6 1583-1588
• volume 7 1588-1591
• volume 8 1591-1593
• volume 9 1593-1597
• volume 10 1597-1599
• volume 11 1599-1602
• volume 12 1601-1604
• volume 13 1604-1605
• volume 14 1606-1609
• Morga's Philippine Islands, volume 1 by Dr. Antonio de Morga (= The Philippine Islands 1493-1898 volumes 15 and 16)
• volume 16 1609
• volume 17 1609-1616
• volume 18 1617-1620
• volume 19 1620-1621
• volume 20 1621-1624
• volume 21 1624
• The Philippines Past and Present, volume 1 by Dean Worcester
• The Story of the Philippines by Murat Halstead
• True Version of the Philippine Revolution by Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
• Resena Veridica de la Revolution Filipina (same book in Spanish)
• Viajes por Filipinas de Manila a Tayabas by Juan Alvarez Guerra
• Viajes por Filipinas de Manila a Albay by Juan Alvarez Guerra
• Viajes por Filipinas de Manila a Marianas by Juan Alvarez Guerra
• A Woman's Impressions of the Philippines by Mary Fee

Works in the Tagalog language

• Alamat by Jose Sivilla
• Ang Mananayaw by Rosario Almario
• Ang Mestisa by E.L. Valmonte
• Ang Sintang Dalisay by Julieta at Romeo and G.D. Roke
• Ibong Adarna by Juliana Martinez
• Justicia n-g Dios by Mariano Sequera
• Novena
• Panayam Ng Tatlong Binata Tinula Ni by Cleto R. Ignacio
• Panukala Sa Pagkakana Nang Republika Nang Philipina, 1898
• Tulang Kinatha by Jose Morante

Folk Tales, Anthropology, and Linguistics

• Contribucion para el estudio de los antiguos alfabetos filipinos by T.H. Pardo de Tavera, 1884
• Etimologia de los nombres de razas de filipinos by T. H. Pardo de Tavera, 1901
• The Bontoc Igorot [in the Philippines] by Albert Ernest Jenks
• Finipino Popular Tales
• The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornelius Willcox
• A Little Book of Filippino Riddles by Frederick Stair
• Philippine Folk Tales edited by Mabel Cole
• Philippine Folk Tales by Carla Bayliss, Berton Maxfield, and W.H. MIllington
• Philippine Folklore Stories by John Maurice Miller
• A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore by Fay_Cooper Cole
• Tinguian by Fay-Cooper Cole
• Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore
• Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines  by H. Wilfrid Walker

Literature

Parnaso Filipino: Antologia de Poetas del Archipelago Magallanio edited by Eduardo Martin de la Camara

Apolinario Mabini

Decalogue for Filipinos, 1922

• Jose Rizal (wrote in Spanish, lived in Philippines)
• El Consejo de las Dioses
• Junto al Pasig (play)
• Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig
• The Indolence of the Filipino
• The Reign of Greed
• The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere) translated by Charles Derbyshire
• Epifanio de Los Santos
• Florante

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