₱1200
By Alfredo Roces
Published by Far Eastern University, ©2025.
“Alfredo Roces, through his masterful retelling of our history from the viewpoint of the 19 th century ilustrado-Filipino, the ultimate ilustrado being Dr. Jose Rizal, points us in the right direction for us to finally find our lost Eden. Let us stop blaming our long colonial past for our failings; instead let us, every citizen from Aparri to Jolo, live by the right, in dignity and with kindness.”
– Lydia Balatbat-Echauz, Filipino
“The book situates the early, key ilustrados in the context of the 19th-century events, ideas, and human conflicts that created the historical colonial experience, and provided the way of life of the national persona now called Filipino. Alfredo Roces, noted writer and scholar on Filipino art and culture, deliberately avoided the class-struggle approach and interpretation that characterized much of postwar writing on 19th-century Philippine history, and produced an impassioned yet unbiased account of the ilustrados” thoughts and sense of nationhood.”
– Manila Critics Circle
Description: 334 pages ; 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-971-678-072-7
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