Includes Index.

Includes Bibliographical References

Introduction -- Part 1. Reframing Philippine National History -- Chapter 1. The local as National history: questioning our categories -- Chapter 2. A failure of imagination? The nation in narratives of the 1896 Philippine revolution -- Chapter 3. The fulcrum of structure- agency: history and sociology of sugar haciendas in colonial Negros -- Part 2. Sugar histories: peripheral strategies vis-a-vis the center -- Chapter 4. Beyond inevitability: the opening of provincial ports in 1855 -- Chapter 5. Sugar planter- state relations and sharecropping in colonial Negros haciendas -- Chapter 6. Masonic myths and revolutionary feats in Negros occidental -- Chapter 7. The canton of Negros Island: dreams of federalism and the quest for independence in a US protectorate -- Part 3. Rice histories: peripheral struggles for social reproduction -- Chapter 8. The emergence of an Agrarian proletariat in small-scale rice farming, 1960s-1970s -- Chapter 9. The peasant as capitalist: beyond the categories if ideal-typical capitalism -- Chapter 10. Occupy: land struggles in rural Asia and the defense of petty commodity production -- Chapter 11. Rice and magic: a cultural history from the precolonial world to the present.

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