The Propaganda Movement, 1880-1895

This book does not pretend to be an exhaustive study of Filipino nationalism in the period before the outbreak of the Revolution, as it focuses its attention on the European scene, not on the penetration of nationalist ideals in the Philippines, nor the activities and organizations at home which took their inspiration from the Propagandists abroad. Given the conditions of Philippine society then, the effective contact with European liberalism and nationalism and fruitful cross-fertilization towards a Filipino nationalist ideology were bound to take place largely outside the Philippines.