In this week's episode of EXTRA CREDIT, let's take a closer look at America's fascinating fascination with Islamic Philippines. (Listen to S3E5 before listening to this one!)

“The Sultan of Sulu”, a smash hit Broadway play from the early 1900s, had it all: a musical monarch, multiple wives, plenty of laughs, and a sly, anti-imperialist message tucked into the libretto.

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References:

Mendoza, Victor Roman (2015). Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913. Duke University Press.

Charbonneau, Oliver (2021). Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Ade, George (1903). The Sultan of Sulu. R.H. Russell. https://archive.org/details/sultansulu00adegrich

“Wasit to Paradise” (30 November, 1936). Time https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,757014,00.html

Select audio snippets from the promotions and performance of the Canton Comic Opera Company, uploaded on the American Musical Productions YouTube channel.

In this week's episode of EXTRA CREDIT, sip a cup of joe as we give some extra info on one of the most important export crops of nineteenth century Philippines. (Listen to S3E4 before listening to this one!)

From sleepy village… to coffee boomtown! The enterprising people of Lipa brewed beans into cold, hard cash, building fortunes that lasted generations. But how did the coffee boom turn into a bust?

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References:

Castro, Bel S. (2003) Demythologising the History of Coffee in Lipa, Batangas in the 19th Century [Masteral Dissertation, University of Adelaide]. Academia.edu

Robles, Eliodoro G. (1969). The Philippines in the 18th Century. Malaya Books, Inc.

Hau, Caroline S. (2017). Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Francisco, Mariel and Arriola, Fe Maria (1987). The History of the Burgis. Fuego y Hielo, Inc.

Katigbak, Renz (2019). "Donde Florecieron los Cafetos... Un Paseo por Lipa." Herencia Lipeña. https://herencialipena.com/2019/07/02/where-the-coffee-plants-bloomed/

In this week's episode of EXTRA CREDIT, we get our feet wet with some more crocodile talk to give more info on the episode that just aired last week. (Listen to S3E3 before listening to this one!)

As British, American, and French merchant houses and enterprises pour into the Philippines to fill the void left by the Galleon Trade, a giant crocodile lurks inside one such plantation in the wetlands of Laguna de Bay.

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References:

Gironiere, Paul P. De La (1854). Twenty Years in the Philippines (trans.) Harper & Brothers, New York.

Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Powell, Alvin (July 2001). “Warm, fuzzy, weird, funny: The Museum(s) of Natural History spin some tall tales.” The Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/07/warm-fuzzy-weird-funny-the-museums-of-natural-history-spin-some-tall-tales/

Abdulmuti, Chelsy Mae (20 July 2021). “As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back.” Mongabay. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-humans-close-in-on-their-habitat-crocodiles-in-the-philippines-snap-back/

Audio snippets from the Coretta Granberry vlog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064XsYc0418) and GMA 7 News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAONTRArGrI)

In this week's episode of EXTRA CREDIT, we serve up some tasty trivia on the Shanghai underworld that we weren't able to fit in the previous episode. (Listen to S3E2 before listening to this one!)

In 1930s Shanghai, the sweet sound of slot machines and swinging bands soundtracked the bars and nightclubs of the city’s seedy underworld. Guess where they all came from.

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References:

French, Paul (2018). City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai. Picador.

French, Paul (February 2018). “Gangs of Shanghai.” That’s Shanghai, 40-41.

Guingona, Phillip (2016). “The Sundry Acquaintances of Dr. Albino Z. Sycip: Exploring the Shanghai-Manila Connection, circa 1910-1940.” Journal of World History, 27(1), 27-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43901823

Yamomo, Mele (2015). “Brokering sonic modernities: Migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948.” Popular Entertainment Studies, 6(2), 22-37.

Crow, Carl and Kowalsky, V.V. (1935). “Illustrated Historical Map of Shanghai.” (Map) Norman B. Levinthal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library. https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f974z

Cover photo by Malcolm Rosholt, courtesy of Mei-Fei Elrick and Tess Johnston, University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China

In our new bonus episode series called "Extra Credit", we serve up bite-sized nuggets of PH history. Here are three tidbits based on last week's episode, "The Silent Service."

Silent predators stalk the seas of the Philippines! But as the Japanese naval invasion commences, what role did these stealthy subs play in the archipelago’s defense?

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References:

Parrish, Thomas (2004). Submarines: A History. Viking.

Sturma, Michael (2021). “Submarine Special Missions: One Day in the Philippines.” The Great Circle, 34(1), 54-64.

Sayre, Elizabeth E. (September 1942). “Submarine From Corregidor: The Escape.” The Atlantic.

Eisner. Peter (2017). MacArthur’s Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II. Viking.

Heritage NSW. “The Japanese midget submarine program." heritage.nsw.gov.au