Product Description: A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia (view table of contents)