A Legacy of the Propaganda: The Tripartite View of ...

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A Legacy of the Propaganda: The Tripartite View of Philippine History by Dr. Zeus A. Salazar The broad division of most national histories in the Third World into: precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial has its equivalent in Philippine historiography and historical consciousness. The Filipino view, however, was worked out even before the Spaniards were driven out of the country. It was, in fact, a major weapon in the ideological armory of the Filipino struggle against the Spanish colonial regime. Elaborated during the Propaganda Movement, it became the historical worldview of the Revolution which was considered to be the final struggle to bring about the period of freedom from colonial bondage.

A Legacy of the Propaganda: The Tripartite View of Philippine History ... the cycle of life and death, the passing and coming of generations, youth and age, planting and harvesting, war and peace with neighboring barangays. There would therefore be myths and legends about these recurrent "events," for they had kasaysayan –– ... (through the ...

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