While we do not lack for primary source materials on the Philippines from the 16th to the 18th centuries, almost all of these were written by foreigners, leaving us without an insider’s account. Nevertheless, the sharp historian is able to turn this given bias around on its head to tease out from within the silences of the pages, or what the late William Henry Scott called “cracks in the parchment curtain,” the Filipino voice in history.
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