The Philippines: A Century Hence 1912 Jose Rizal ~ Filipino National Identity ~ History

Title: The Philippines: A Century Hence
Author: Jose Rizal / Edited by Austin Craig
Publication: Manila: Philippine Education Company, 1912

Description: Maroon cloth over boards. Paste-on portrait of Rizal on front cover. Covers show fading, general soiling, and wear along the fore-edges. Poetic quotations printed on endpapers. Bottom margin damp-stain and tide mark appear throughout volume. Penciled price in upper corner of front free endpaper, else unmarked. Illustrated frontispiece. 136 pages. 7 x5 inches.

A scarce copy of the Rizal's four-part essay, here published in a single volume in Manila in 1912.

The volume includes supplemental material, including Austin Craig's introduction, F. Jagor's prophecy which prompted Rizal's Policy of Preparation for the Philippines, Rizal's December 1896 Farewell Address, Additions to My Defence: Rizal's statement before the court martial, Rizal's brief remarks about the rebellion from his penciled notes used for his speech, and Rizal's sketched map (the frontispiece illustration) showing the spheres of influence in the Pacific at the time of writing his essay.

Rizal's four part essay ''Filipinas dentro de Cien Anos'' was originally published serially in the Filipino fortnightly review ''La Solidaridada,'' of Madrid, running through the issues from September 1889 to January 1890.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Keywords: history, national identity, nationalism, Noli Me Tangere,