Intergracion / Internacion: The Urbanization of Cebu in Archival Records of the Spanish Colonial Period

By J. Eleazar R. Bersales and Ino Manalo (co-curators and editors), Michael Cullinane, Danilo M. Gerona, Trizer Dale D. Mansueto, Resil B. Mojares (Contributors) (Author)

Quick Overview

The volume is a product of a partnership between the University of San Carlos and the National Archives of the Philippines. It brings together in its pages the essays of six writers including eminent historians, Resil Mojares and Michael Cullinane. The essays all deal with different aspects of the Spanish Colonial urbanization of Cebu gleaned from materials in the National Archives of the Philippines and other sources. The present volume is part of a planned series that started with Conscription: Imagining and Inscribing the Ilocano World which came out in 2014. In keeping with the earlier work, this book also serves as a Catalogue and Dossier documenting an exhibition of the same name which opened at the University of San Carlos Museum on November 13, 2013 and at the Museo Sugbo on October 23, 2014.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Resil B. Mojares is a Professor Emeritus at the University of San Carlos. He earned his Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines-Diliman and has authored books in Philippine history and culture. He had stints as visiting professor at the University of Winconsin-Madison, University of Hawaii, University of California at Los Angeles, Kyoto University, and National University of Singapore. His most recent book is Interrogations in Philippine Cultural History. Michael M. Cullinane is the Associate Director of the center for Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty Associate in History at the University of Winconsin-Madison. He obtained his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at the University of Michigan. He has most recently been affiliated with the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of San Carlos. His most recent book is The Battle for Cebu: Andrew S. rowan and the Siege of Sudlon (1899-1900) from USC Press (now known as USC Publishing House). Danilo M. Gerona holds a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines. Specializing in the early Spanish colonial era in the Philippines, he did extensive research in both Philippine and Spanish archives. As the author of the book, Ferdinand Magellan Armad de Maluco and the European Discovery of the Philippines, he sists in the Comite International of the Fundacion Civiliter Sevilla 2019-2022, a global committee based in the city of Seville which spearheads the 5th centennial celebration of the Magellan expedition's circumnavigation of the world. Trizer Dale D. Masueto is involved in researches, museums, and translations. He has authored an co-authored books and articles on culture and history. He obtained his Master of Arts in History degree from Silliman University. J. Eleazar R. Bersales is concurrently the Head Curator of the University of San Carlos Museum and Manager of USC Press (now known as USC Publishing house). He is a associate professor at the USC Department of Anthology, Sociology and History. He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology degree from the University of San Carlos (under a joint educational partnership program in archeology with New Mexico State University) and an M.A. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Jobers, as he is known in Cebu, has edited or co-authored a number of books on culture and heritage and also writes a weekly column in the Cebu Daily News entitled "Past Forward". Ino Manalo, who is also known as Victorino Mapa Manalo, has been Executive Director of the National Archives of the Philippines since 2011. He is writer who has won national prizes like the Don Carlos Palancia Award for Literature. He holds a Masters in international Affairs from Columbia University and a Post Graduate Certificate for Archival Studies from Hongkong University. He is a former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.