Megan C. Thomas is associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Rigorously researched and lucidly written, Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados breaks new ground in the study of the 19th century Philippines. In particular, the book stands out in its careful attention to texts produced by the intellectuals at the center of its story. Importantly, Megan C. Thomas frames-and powerfully defamiliarizes-canonical works and authors by placing them alongside lesser-known texts, a move that is not only recuperative and inclusive, but transformative." -Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines"Megan C. Thomas’s attention to the dissonances between writers of the late nineteenth century is as important as her observation of the emergent nationalism that was their legacy." -Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Worldly Colonials: Ilustrado Thought and Historiography1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Post-Colonial Critiques2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with “Race” and “Civilization” 3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique4. Is ‘K’ a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anti-Colonial Politics5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary StrategyConclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines NotesIndex

Megan C. Thomas is associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Rigorously researched and lucidly written, Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados breaks new ground in the study of the 19th century Philippines. In particular, the book stands out in its careful attention to texts produced by the intellectuals at the center of its story. Importantly, Megan C. Thomas frames-and powerfully defamiliarizes-canonical works and authors by placing them alongside lesser-known texts, a move that is not only recuperative and inclusive, but transformative." -Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines"Megan C. Thomas’s attention to the dissonances between writers of the late nineteenth century is as important as her observation of the emergent nationalism that was their legacy." -Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Worldly Colonials: Ilustrado Thought and Historiography1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Post-Colonial Critiques2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with “Race” and “Civilization” 3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique4. Is ‘K’ a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anti-Colonial Politics5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary StrategyConclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines NotesIndex

Megan C. Thomas is associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Rigorously researched and lucidly written, Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados breaks new ground in the study of the 19th century Philippines. In particular, the book stands out in its careful attention to texts produced by the intellectuals at the center of its story. Importantly, Megan C. Thomas frames-and powerfully defamiliarizes-canonical works and authors by placing them alongside lesser-known texts, a move that is not only recuperative and inclusive, but transformative." -Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines"Megan C. Thomas’s attention to the dissonances between writers of the late nineteenth century is as important as her observation of the emergent nationalism that was their legacy." -Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Worldly Colonials: Ilustrado Thought and Historiography1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Post-Colonial Critiques2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with “Race” and “Civilization” 3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique4. Is ‘K’ a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anti-Colonial Politics5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary StrategyConclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines NotesIndex