ILUSTRADO

POLITICO
Filipino Elite Responses to American Rule, 1898-1908

By
Michael Culliname
About the Author
Michael Culliname is the associate director of
the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also
teaches Southeast Asian History. He completed his
doctoral degree at the University of Michigan, and
has been conducting research and publishing on
Philippine history since the early 1970’s. During over
six years of residence in the Philippines, he has
taught history and political science at the University
of San Carlos in Cebu City and at De La Salle
University in Manila. Dr. Culliname has also served
as chair of the Philippine Studies Group and as of
the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for
ABOUT THE BOOK
The early political careers of
Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmena
are brought to light in the context of
the changing colonial society by
Michael Culliname in ilustrado Politics:
Filipino Elite Responses to American
Rule,1898-1908. Through years of
research work, Culliname shows how
provincial politicos rose to national
leadership in the midst of influential
American officials and Manila-based
Ilustrados as they took advantages of
the possibilities presented by the new
colonial order
 CHAPTER 1
1. To review the literature on nineteenth- century
Filipino society and social structure
2. To construct a basic frame work for discussing
Filipino Elite.
3. To discuses the emergence of llustrado and other
educated Elites.
4. To describe the major arenas of Elite Political
activity
5. To explain the accommodation between Ilustrado
and earliest American officials
 CHAPTER 2
1. Accommodation and Early Collaboration in Manila.

2. The founding of the Partido Federal.

3. Taft. The Partido Federal, and the Politics of Patronage

 CHAPTER 3
EMERGING OPPOSITION POLITICS
IN MANILA 1901-1902
1. Division within the Ilustrado Community of Manila.

2.The Radical Opposition of De Los Reyes,Poblete & Gomez

3. Consistent Nationalist & El Renaciemento the Moderate Opposition

 CHAPTER 4
THE DECLINE OF THE PARTIDO
FEDERAL 1902-1905

1. Dissension within the Party Ranks

2. The breakdown of the Collaborative Relation at the top, 1903-

1905

3. Taft attempt to mend the Broken Alliance

 CHAPTER 5
THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION IN MANILA
1. The Pasyon of Dominador Gomez
2. The Seditious Drama and Ilustrado Politics.
3. El Renaciemento and the Emergence of the
Comite’ de Interese Filipino
4. Taft 1905 visit and the Manila Opposition
5. The El Renaciemento libel case and the truimph
of the Moderates.
6. The state of the Manila Opposition in Early 1906
 CHAPTER 6
EMERGING PROVINCIAL POLITICS
IN 1902-1906

1.Provincial Americans and the

Changing Politics if Oatronage
2.Election Politics and the Rise of
Provincial Politicos
3.The impact of election on
provincial and patronage
4. Provincial Politicos and Manila
Politics
 CHAPTER 7
Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino-
American Politics in Tayabas, 1902-
1906
1.The Provincial Elite and the
American in Tayabas.

2.Manuel Quezon and the

Beginning of a Public Life.

3.The making of a Governor

 CHAPTER 8
SERGIO OSMEÑA and POLITICS
In CEBU 1902-1906

1.The making of Sergio Osmeña as

a Provincial Ilustrado

2.Osmeña Rise to local Province

3.Osemeña takes control

 CHAPTER 9
FINDING A NEW COLLABORATION
EQUATION 1906-1907

1.The ascendancy of Forbes and Banholz

2.The Governors Convention of 1906 and the

ascendency of Osmeña and Quezon

3.Osmeña and Quezon consolidate local control and

preparefor assembly-Manuel L. Quzon

4. The outine of the new colloborative arrangement

 CHAPTER 10
BUILDING THE PARTIDO
NACIONALIST
1.The Oppositionist and the founding of
the Partido Nacionalist

2.The Federalista reorganized for the

Political Election

3.The Nacionalist and the seacrh for

political consistiencies.
 CHAPTER 11
OSMEÑA IS EASLY KING AND ALL IS
WELL

1.The result of the 1907 Assembly

2.The Provincial Governors takes

control

3.Consolidating the New Alliance