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Sobre la indolencia de los filipinos ("On the Indolence of the Filipinos" in Spanish) is a socio-political essay published in La solidaridad in Madrid in 1890. It was written by José Rizal as a response to the accusation of Indio or Malay indolence. He admits the existence of indolence among the Filipinos, but it could be attributed to a ...
The book version of Riis' work was published in January 1890 as How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. [ 20 ] The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais , who wrote in Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait ...
La Solidaridad (lit. The Solidarity) was an organization created in Spain on December 13, 1888. Composed of Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and students attending Europe's universities, the organization aimed to increase Spanish awareness of the needs of its colony, the Philippines, and to propagate a closer relationship between the Philippines and Spain.
Books published in the 1870s. 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; ... 1870 books (2 C, 13 P) 1871 books (5 C, ... The Library Illustrative of Social Progress; P.
December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva («Ни́ва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg. [9] unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay, India, is completed. [10]
Portrait of Émile Zola (1868), by Édouard Manet. This literary movement began in France and its initiator was Émile Zola (1840–1902). This style descends from the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the methods of the physiologist Claude Bernard (1813–1878), and many distinctive achievements of the modern spirit: democracy, experimental methods (Claude Bernard), and ...
A period of renovation in America and Europe was opened, which started from a common will of rejection towards the dogmas and principles of the society. The Modernist period or time begins and closes in dates that could be fixed towards 1880 and 1945, although precursory signs occurred before the first and they continued being observed after ...