Research Guides: Southeast Asia: Philippines

Economics & Finance--Philippines specific links

For multi regional politics and public policy resources across South Asia,
see the Cross Regional South Asia Politics and Public Policy listings

Asian Economic History Series One: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48
Butler microforms, 4 reels. Foreign Office Files relating to the Opium Trade and the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The material is truly international with memoranda, papers and correspondence reflecting activity in Burma, Syria, the Lebanon, Cyprus, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, India and Ceylon, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, the Philippines, North Borneo and Sarawak. See online guide.

Evangelism in Philippines : correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1898-1910.
"The American Presbyterian Church was committed at its inception to the belief that it is a missionary church and that every member is a missionary. The establishment in 1837 of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions signaled the beginning of a worldwide missionary operation destined to embrace some fifteen countries in four different continents. The records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in the Philippines and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Documenting the church's educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters"--Publisher's description

U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of U.S.-Southeast Asia relations between 1944 and 1958, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned the American role in Southeast Asia.

HeinOnline
Hein Online contains the full text of numerous legal journals, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Foreign Relations of the U.S., Presidential Executive Orders, Congressional Record, U.S. Statutes at Large, and other documents from the executive, congressional and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
LLMC digital
Law Library Microform Consortium.A non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally.

South Asian Legal History Resources
A website by Mitra Sharafi, legal historian at the University of Wisconsin. Mostly focused on the later colonial period of South Asian legal history, when British India was under the Raj (1858-1947).

Multiregional Asia religion resources are available here.

Mangyan bamboo collection from Mindoro, Philippines, circa 1900 to 1939
A collection of 71 bamboo slats and 6 cylinders from the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. These items are etched with either verses or prose in the Mangyan script—an Indic-derived writing system that pre-dates the arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines and persists to the present.

Puma Podcast
The "first-mover in podcasting in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. We specialize in audio storytelling founded on core values of good, independent journalism, and in the service of our company’s mission: to share the joy, value, and power there is in listening."