Shopping for Islands:
Behind the Door Bargaining for the Philippines
in the Treaty of Paris September – December 1898

Presented by John Silva
May 9, 2015
Saturday
10:00 a.m.

In this lecture presented by the Philippine Map Collectors Society for the The First Philippine Republic & the United States: 1898 – 1907 exhibit, John Silva will focus on the impact of the Treaty of Paris on the making of the Filipino nation.

John Silva is Executive Director of the Ortigas Foundation Library. The library has an 18,000-volume collection of Filipiniana books, documents, and photographs. In addition, it has a collection of 300 maps from the 18th century to the present..

To reserve, call Ortigas Foundation at 631-1231 and ask for Ortigas Foundation Library.