10 sources cited across the Philippines corpus — aggregated from all document Primary Sources Consulted blocks, deduplicated by title prefix.
This document is a synthesis of secondary-source bibliography rather than a primary-source-driven analytical anchor. The works enumerated in §§2–9 below constitute the canon. The document's analytical contribution is the organisation, the inter-author commentary on contested readings, and the identification of open questions that the canon collectively addresses or leaves unresolved.
The bibliographic frame is built from:
The cumulative bibliographies of the principal Philippines-studies surveys — Abinales and Amoroso (rev. ed. 2017), Karnow (1989), Constantino (1975) — checked against each other for canon convergence.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Southeast Asia Council *Journal of Asian Studies* and *Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints* (Ateneo de Manila University, the principal Philippine-studies journal of record) review essays from 2010–2024.
The University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) Department of Political Science and the UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC) monograph catalogues.
The Ateneo de Manila University Press and the Anvil Publishing catalogues as the two principal Philippine-domestic academic presses.
The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore) Philippines Studies Programme outputs and the *Contemporary Southeast Asia* and *Trends in Southeast Asia* series.
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) edited-volume catalogue and the Vera Files / Rappler long-form archives as the principal investigative-journalism literature.
The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center's dynasty-research output (Mendoza et al.) and the broader AIM working-paper series.
Where this document quotes specific assessments of a work's canonical position, those assessments are attributed by name to the reviewer or surveyor concerned.