Fighting from a distance : how Filipino exiles helped topple a dictator / / Jose V. Fuentecilla
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| Autore: |
Fuentecilla Jose V
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| Titolo: |
Fighting from a distance : how Filipino exiles helped topple a dictator / / Jose V. Fuentecilla
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 959.904/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Filipinos - United States - History |
| Exiles - Political activity - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Philippines Politics and government 1973-1996 |
| Philippines Foreign relations United States | |
| United States Foreign relations Philippines | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm of the opposition to help return their country to democracy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fighting from a distance |
| ISBN: | 1-299-48325-9 |
| 0-252-09509-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824039503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Asian American Experience