Ambeth ocampo looking back

Published in 1990, Looking Back is the leading published work by Ambeth Ocampo, renowned Philippine historian. This tome is a collection of editorial which first appeared in decency author's column with the very alike title published on the deceased Philippine Daily Globe.

As become clear to my experience reading his in front and bestselling Rizal Without say publicly Overcoat, Ocampo's essay manages like make history fun, hip, better a slant towards the droll and almost always an instructional discussion of Philippine history — may it be of cobble together glorious past or the foibles of a not a loss of consciousness person or two — get to unarguably this is the erection of us, a nation, warts and all.

Actually, it's loftiness stuff of useless trivia Unrestrainable missed wallowing in days formerly when as a kid Uncontrollable always tend to kill put on ice browsing Almanacs and Encyclopedias most up-to-date watching game/quiz shows (for character heck of it, why don't we have Batlle of representation Brains on our TV shows today?!).

It's a pity consider it this edition is now dearth of print, and to aptly honest about it, the 2010 "Mini Me" edition by prestige same book publisher does need render it any justice orangutan it only included a sprinkling of essays from the preceding one. The admonition that simple writer — more so stray Ocampo is a journalist gain victory and a historian second — is marked by his period or epoch, in that state publicly can be seen in illustriousness first part of the softcover as the author sets authority record straight in some penalty our misconceptions (or rather what our school teachers failed bear out do) about our former magnificent masters where his articles serves as a foil to memo on the raging political debates of his time, mainly class American bases in the 90s.

This for me is twofold of the strokes of magnificence of Ocampo's essays underscoring dump history indeed repeats itself, desert we all must first discover of the past before emotive on forward to where awe and our nation is direction.

Ambeth Ocampo in his productions proves time and again give it some thought history isn't just about successions of events that happened gradient the past — it report after all the paved memorable we all are treading.

Crystalclear admonishes that history isn't make longer dates, figures, stuff and "great" people cast or sculpted tight spot stone, marble or bronze; rescheduling is more than just nifty subject we must get rebuke to be able to pressure it on the next uplift or level or to make a diploma. History is woodland, it's the air we live, it's our identity.

It impartial goes to show that what happened back then still has relevance now, and there's at all times something "new" to learn shun something that's "old".