Fighting from a distance : how Filipino exiles helped topple a dictator

Fighting from a distance : how Filipino exiles helped topple a dictator /

During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, the author describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm...

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Main Author: Fuentecilla, Jose V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Chicago and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2013
Series:Asian American experience.
Subjects:
Marcos, Ferdinand E. > (Ferdinand Edralin), > 1917-1989.
Movement for a Free Philippines (Organization)
Filipinos > United States > History.
Exiles > Political activity > United States.
Philippines > Politics and government > 1973-1996.
Philippines > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Philippines.
Electronic book.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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