Beyond Distances: Governance, Politics and Deportation in the Mariana Islands from 1870 to 1877

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BY CARLOS MADRID


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Beyond Distances: Governance, Politics and Deportation in the Mariana Islands from 1870 to 1877 provides insights of everyday life in the 19th century Mariana Islands, using rare documents to bring native Chamorro/CHamoru voices and perspectives. Author Carlos Madrid examines the relationship between significant events in Saipan, Europe, the Philippines and Micronesia, offering a deeper understanding of local events within relevant global contexts. In doing so, this work effectively disrupts common notions of Micronesia as isolated and unaffected by events in the rest of the world.

 

PRODUCT DETAILS

  • GENRE: History
  • BINDING: Hardcover - 254 pages
  • PUBLISHER: Northern Mariana Islands Council for Humanities
  • PUBLICATION DATE: 2006
  • ISBN: 1-878453-94-7
  • DIMENSIONS (W x H x D): 6.69" x 9.69" x .75"
  • WEIGHT: 1.7 lb

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carlos Madrid Alvarez-Piñer, born in Spain in 1976, holds a PhD cum laude in Contemporary History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is Director of Research and Associate Professor of Spanish Pacific History at the Micronesian Area Research Center of the University of Guam. He has conducted research projects about Micronesia, Spain, and the Philippines since 1996, and has given lectures at the University of the Philippines, Keio University of Japan, University of Guam, and in the Diplomatic School of Madrid.

From 2014 to 2018 he was the Director of Instituto Cervantes de Manila. In 2005 and 2006, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Filipiniana.net. Dr. Madrid specializes in management of cultural resources, documentary research, and popularization of history. He participated in the exhibit Biba Chamoru! Cultura e Identidad en las Islas Marianas, in Museo Nacional de Antropologia de Madrid in 2021, and curated the exhibits Seraphico: The Franciscan Missionaries in the Aurora region, on permanent display in Museo de Baler in Aurora Province, Philippines; and the exhibit Belau na Sebangiol at the Belau National Museum in 2005. He is the author of Beyond Distances (Northern Mariana Islands Governor’s Humanities Award 2008) and editor of the fourth edition of the book Philippine Cartography by Carlos Quirino. Among the books he has authored, the most celebrated is The World of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons (Vibal Publishing).