Includes index.

The Country and the people -- Pre-Spanish life and culture -- Spanish conquest and settlement -- Social and economic conditions -- Challenges to Spanish authority -- Spanish cultural influences -- The Beginnings of Filipino Nationalism -- The Campaign for reforms -- Bonifacio and the Katipunan -- The Katipunan revolution -- The Struggle continues -- Freedom and independence -- The Filipino-American war -- The Filipino catholic church -- Bases of American rule -- Training for self government -- The Campaign for independence -- The Commonwealth and the war -- American influences -- The Third republic -- The New Society

This book follows the orientation of my other preciously written books on Philippine history. They have been written from the point of view of Filipinos and not of the Spaniards and the Americans. Even so, facts are not twisted to accommodate national prejudices.