Lahiri, Smita2009-08-282007Lahiri, Smita. 2007. Rhetorical Indios: Propagandists and Their Publics in the Spanish Philippines. Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, no. 2: 243-275.0010-4175http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3228046Censorship notwithstanding, the final half-century of Spanish rule in the Philippines was a time of efflorescence in colonial print culture. Between the advent of typo-lithography in 1858 and the successive occurrence, in 1896 and 1898, of the Filipino revolution and the Spanish-American War, printing presses operating in Manila and beyond issued thousands of books and periodicals, the first public library, the Muséo-Bibliotéca de Filipinas, opened its doors in 1887, and the importation of books from Europe and America could scarcely keep pace with demand.en10.1017/S0010417507000485