Literature Guide: Philippines
WCIU Journal: Area Studies Topic
June 3, 2021
Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS
Also See: Christianity in the Philippines Literature Guide.
Library of Congress Classification Numbers
DS 651 – DS 689 Philippines—History
PL 5501 – PL 6135 Philippine languages
PN 5421 – PN 5429 Philippine newspapers
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Agta language
Alien labor, Philippine
Bagobo language
Filipinists
Filipino Americans
Hanunoo language
Ilongot language
Isneg language
Kalagan language
Maguindanau language
Manobo languages
Palawanic languages
Philippine drama
Philippine languages
Philippine literature
Philippines
Sama languages
Subanun language
Tboli language
Yogad language
Periodicals
Philippine Studies
Reference Books
Area Handbook for the Philippines
Handbook of Philippine Language Groups
Historical Dictionary of the Philippines
The Philippines: A Global Studies Handbook
Reference Books with Relevant Articles
American National Biography. S.v. “Quezon, Manuel Luis”
Business: The Ultimate Reference. S.v. “Competing on Costs” (Provides a case study of Jollibee Food Corporation)
Dictionary of American History
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Asian History
The Encyclopedia of Education
The Far East and Australasia 1980-81
Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations
Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey
The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. S.v. “Del Monte.”
The Oxford Companion to Food
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor
The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary
World Education Encyclopedia
Circulation
General and Miscellaneous
Andres, Tomas D., and Pilar B. Ilada-Andres. 1987. Understanding the Filipino. New Day Publishers.
Pantoja, Luis, Jr., Sadiri Joy B. Tira, and Enoch Wan, eds. 2004. Scattered: The Filipino Global Presence. Manila: LifeChange Publishing.
Rodell, Paul A. 2002. Culture and Customs of the Philippines. Westport, Conn: Greenwood.
Steinberg, David Joel. 2000. The Philippines: A Singular and Plural Place. 4th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Wurfel, David. 1988. Filipino Politics: Development and Decay. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. =
History and Biography
Agoncillo, Teodoro A., and Oscar M. Alfonso. 1990. History of the Filipino People. 8th ed. Quezon City: Garotech Publishing.
Batubalani, A.M. 1998. The Filipino Scientists. Manila: Loacan Publishing House.
Blair, E. H., and F. A. Robertson. 1903-09. The Philippine Islands 1493-1898. 55 vol. Cleveland: A. H. Clark.
De la Costa, Horacio. 1965. Readings in Philippine History: Selected Historical Texts. Manila: Bookmark.
Francia, Luis H. 2010. History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. Overlook Press.
Karnow, Stanley. 1989. In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines. New York: Random House.
Scott, William Henry. 1982. Cracks in the Parchment Curtain and Other Essays in Philippine History. Quezon City: New Day Publishers.
Wolff, Leon. 2006. Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Turn. New York: History Book Club. Originally Published in 1961.
Zaide, Gregorio F. 1954. The Philippine Revolution. Modern Book Company.
Islam
Donoso, Isaac. 2014. Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam. University of the Philippines Press.
Kiefer, Thomas M. 1986. The Tausug: Violence and Law in a Philippine Moslem Society. Waveland Press.
Yegar, Moshe. 2002. Between Integration and Secession: The Muslim Communities of the Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, and Western Burma/Myanmar. Lexington Books.
Websites
www.hawaii.edu/cps/ Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa
www.philippineconsulatela.org Philippine Embassy in U.S.