Philippine E-Journals

Redentorista O Filibustero

Rafael Palma

Discipline: History

 

Abstract:

In these four chapters of his Historia de Filipinas, the author describes in more detail than other historians the conditions of life in the Philippines of the 19th century, and relates the causes why Jose Rizal and other leaders of thought and action of his time had to lead the people to take their destiny in their hands.  In publishing these particular chapters at this time, the Journal has in mind to help greater understanding of the significance of the works, specially the historical novels written by Rizal, whose first centenary has just been celebrated by the Filipino Nation of which he is the Father. 

 

El Siglo XIX fue, tanto para la Peninsula como para Filipinas, fecundo en serios y trascendentales acontecimientos. La Revolucion Francesa y las guerras napoleonicas que la siguieron, moviendose con vertiginosa rapidez, envolvieron a Espana en la serie de convulsiones que produjeron en toda Europa. Las tropas. francesas ocuparon Espana y sentaron en el trono espanol al hermano de Napoleon, Jose Bonaparte. El pueblo con una fiereza sin igual, salvo su independencia de las guerras francesas; pero no sin que las guerras en que estuviera enzarzado produjeran cambios radicales en su estructura politica y social.

 

Articles are written in Spanish.