{"product_id":"inventing-a-hero-1","title":"Inventing a Hero","description":"Andres Bonifacio, the leader of the Philippine  Revolution of 1896, has become one of the country’s great national  heroes. He is celebrated in history textbooks read by millions of young  Filipinos. His image, cast in bronze and cut into stone, stands on  plazas across the archipelago. But what do we really know about him? As  succeeding generations of historians have re-created his legend, has the  real Bonifacio been lost to us forever?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this carefully researched work,  Glenn May sifts through the slender documentary legacy that Bonifacio  left behind after his execution in 1897. Through a close reading of  these texts, he uncovers a history of mythmaking in the service of  nationalism. Our contemporary image of Bonifacio is the sum of  unreliable personal testimony and dubious, possibly doctored, documents.  If the real history of the Philippine Revolution is to be written, May  concludes, historians will have to break through these heroic myths and  admit to the limitations of the existing sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistributed for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison","brand":"University of Wisconsin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56243055001944,"sku":"9781881261186","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781881261186_ac6b18d3-80ec-4f96-9ab4-9d1d64fbbeba.jpg?v=1777988759","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/inventing-a-hero-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}