00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685954869149604984 Buklod 20240213161843.0 a r |||| u| ta 240213s2023||||ph a r b 001 0 eng d 9786214481972 (paperback) 23063754 DLC DMLF rda eng DMLUC DS 688 D3 D33 2023 Dacudao, Patricia Irene author. Abaca frontier the socioeconomic and cultural transformation of Davao, 1898-1941 Patricia Irene Dacudao. Socioeconomic and cultural transformation of Davao, 1898-1941 Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University Press [©2023] xxiv, 412 pages illustrations 24 cm still image rdacontent text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Murdoch University. Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-393) and index. Abaca Frontier: The Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformation of Davao, 1898–1941 presents the story of how abaca, a crop processed for cordage, became itself the rope that tied Davao and its inhabitants to international networks of commerce, culture, and the colonial developmental project. Straddling transoceanic US history, while still firmly situated in Philippine studies, this book boldly incorporates global forces into the retelling of local history. The historical voices woven into its narrative are diverse—Bagobo traders, Spanish missionaries, American housewives, Filipino settlers, Japanese laborers, and so on—each of whom found themselves in the Davao region in the early twentieth century for different reasons, yet all shared some vision of its promise. Sympathetic of its historical subjects, this book shows how the frontier imaginaries of various actors mobilized multicultural collaboration and cohabitation in strikingly, perhaps uniquely, peaceful ways. Abaca Frontier thus tells a new and welcome story, standing apart from the narratives of conflict and dispossession that are familiar to scholars of plantation industries and of Mindanao. --Back cover. In English. Abaca industry Philippines History. Davao Region (Philippines) Economic conditions. Davao Region (Philippines) History. Davao Region (Philippines) Social conditions. Ateneo de Manila University Press publisher. FI UPD DMLF DS 688 D3 D33 2023 UPMIN UPMIN-MAIN DS 688 D3 D33 2023 Book