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By Renato Constantino, with the collaboration of Letizia R. Constantino
Published by Constantino Foundation, Copyright ©1975, 24th Printing,©2026.
The Philippines: A Past Revisited was first published in 1975. That this seminal account of the country’s past remains relevant today is both noteworthy and disconcerting. It is a concerning reminder of the need to wield history to bring about real change so that our people can attain durable democracy, national self-determination, and social liberation.
The special edition of A Past Revisited comes with a new design and introduction but it continues to be a defining example of partisan scholarship that it was when it first came out. It is a book that dismantles carefully constructed myths even as it reveals the origins of dispossession and oppression plaguing the Filipino masses today.
As the authors wrote 50 years ago, “A people’s history must rediscover the past in order to make it reusable. It is the task of the historian to weave particular events into a total view so that historical experience can be summed up and analyzed. Such a history can then serve as a quide to present and succeeding generations in the continuing struggle for change. Such a history must deal with the past with a view to explaining the present. It must therefore be not only descriptive but also analytical; it must deal not only with objective developments but also bring the discussion to the realm of value judgements.”
Description: 492 pages ; 22.7 x 15.2 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 971-895200-2
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