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040			_cHigh School Learning Resource Center
050			_aDS 688.S68 _bD34 2023
245			_aAbaca Frontier _b: The socioeconomic and Cultural Transformation of Davao, 1898-1941 / _cDacudao, Patricia Irene --
260			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University Press _c(c) 2023.
300			_axxiv, 412p. ; _c23cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aAbaca Frontier: The Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformation of Davao, 1898–1941 presents the story of how abaca, a crop processed for cordage, became itself the rope that tied Davao and its inhabitants to international networks of commerce, culture, and the colonial developmental project. Straddling transoceanic US history, while still firmly situated in Philippine studies, this book boldly incorporates global forces into the retelling of local history. The historical voices woven into its narrative are diverse—Bagobo traders, Spanish missionaries, American housewives, Filipino settlers, Japanese laborers, and so on—each of whom found themselves in the Davao region in the early twentieth century for different reasons, yet all shared some vision of its promise. Sympathetic of its historical subjects, this book shows how the frontier imaginaries of various actors mobilized multicultural collaboration and cohabitation in strikingly, perhaps uniquely, peaceful ways. Abaca Frontier thus tells a new and welcome story, standing apart from the narratives of conflict and dispossession that are familiar to scholars of plantation industries and of Mindanao.
546			_aIn English.
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