1. As I've announced in class, I'm not going to meet you tomorrow (Wednesday, April 13). Instead I have asked you to research on a number of topics: A) History, as a field of knowledge; B) Historiography, again as a field of knowledge, and how different is it from history; and the following names a) Karl Marx, b) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, c) Arnold Toynbee, d) Oswald Spengler
We are going to discuss these topics on Thursday, as part one of our introductory lecture on history and historiography.
2. To those who're asking about the readings, I do not place the required readings in the reserved section of the library. I expect you to have access to the two main books--Abinales/Amoroso's S and S in the PH, and Agoncillo's HFP. That means, you may purchase a copy, have the two books photocopied, or borrow from my past students copies (or photocopies) of these books. I expect you to have access to these books as soon as possible, because we need them for the early part of the course.
The rest of the readings are to be made available once we've assigned a beadle in class. Perhaps by next week (say Monday or Tuesday), I would've assigned the beadles already and asked them to have the additional readings made available at your suking photocopier.
That's all for now.
