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Fighting from a Distance : How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator /
During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, the author describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, Chicago and Springfield :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The first exiles : escaping from the homeland
- Rough landings : surviving the first years
- Into the land of the fearful : dread and apathy
- The big divide : differences hindering unity
- Martial law and beyond : how the dictator usurped power
- Early organizing : conflicting opposition groups
- Learning how to lobby : how the United States fought the exiles
- Down with rhetoric! : turning to radical means
- The war of words : winning hearts and minds
- Reviving the opposition : arrival of an exile hero
- Reviewing the decade : adding up the losses and wins
- "It's not all Greek to me" : bringing the fight to the homeland
- A man for many seasons : the leader who led the movement.