Clash of spirits : the history of power and sugar planter hegemony on a Visayan island /

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Author / Creator: Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [1998]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Clash of Spirits: Friar Power and Masonic Capitalism
  • 2. Cockfights and Engkantos: Gambling on Submission and Resistance
  • 3. Elusive Peasant, Weak State: Sharecropping and the Changing Meaning of Debt
  • 4. The Formation of a Landed Hacendero Class in Negros
  • 5. "Capitalists Begging for Laborers": Hacienda Relations in Spanish Colonial Negros
  • 6. Toward Mestizo Power: Masonic Might and the Wagering of Political Destinies
  • 7. The American Colonial State: Pampering Sugar into an Agricultural Revolution
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About: the Author