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Progressive Men, Women, and Movements of the Past Twenty-Five Years

Part 1: The Nineteenth Century: A Backward Glance

"The Man with the Hoe": Its Setting and Author

By Jim Zwick

Jim Zwick is the author of Militarism and Repression in the Philippines (Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill Univ., 1982), the editor of Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1992; Philippine edition, Popular Book Store, 1994), and has published articles about the Anti-Imperialist League and Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings in Amerasia Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Over Here: Reviews in American Studies (UK), the Mark Twain Journal, Filipinas Magazine, and elsewhere. From 1989 to 1994 he also edited the FFP Bulletin published by Friends of the Filipino People. From 1997 to 2001, he also ran the Mark Twain site at About.com. Materials from that site are now in the Mark Twain site here at BoondocksNet.com. For more information:

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