Post-war economic players
Unlike in the 19th century when Cebu City's export economy created wealth for the elite comprised of the Parian Mestizos and the Chinese, the post- war export economy couldn't do the same for an even bigger city population many of whom were less entrepreneurial. With lessened export players at the port in the 1950s and 1960s wealth was not as well dispersed as in the 19th century. But there slowly rose a new middle class among enterprising as well as better-educated Cebuanos and Filipino-Chinese not dependent on the export trade.(Click here to visit link)
HISTORY | Remembering the short-lived
Philippine Republic in Cebu ca. 1898.
Mestizos from Parian held various positions when the short-lived Philippine Republic reigned in the city after the Spaniards left and before the Americans came. Spanish control of the island ended on December 24, 1898. On that day, the Spanish provincial governor of Cebu, Adolfo Montero handed over the reigns of government to a caretaker committee of citizens headed by Pablo Mejia, a Spanish mestizo. On December 30, elections were held at the Casa de Gobierno, fronting Plaza Independencia (then called Plaza Maria Cristina). Elected president was Luis Flores and Julio Llorente as vice president. (Click here to visit link)
Mestizos from Parian held various positions when the short-lived Philippine Republic reigned in the city after the Spaniards left and before the Americans came. Spanish control of the island ended on December 24, 1898. On that day, the Spanish provincial governor of Cebu, Adolfo Montero handed over the reigns of government to a caretaker committee of citizens headed by Pablo Mejia, a Spanish mestizo. On December 30, elections were held at the Casa de Gobierno, fronting Plaza Independencia (then called Plaza Maria Cristina). Elected president was Luis Flores and Julio Llorente as vice president. (Click here to visit link)
The End of Cebu's Frontier Economy
and the Decline of Cebu's Towns
Without major industries and with copra production not as labor-intensive as the farming of sugar cane and other cash crops (with coconut trees taking years to grow), more and more people left the towns in the years after the second world war, leaving some of them frozen in time and looking like places that had seen better times. (Click here to visit link)
The trade with foreign markets done in the open port of Cebu transformed not just Cebu City but the entire Cebu island. The influential and wealthy Mestizos farmed out lands throughout the province, many of which, before the cash crop boom of 19th century remained idle for centuries. (Click to visit link)
HERITAGE | Great archaeological discovery of Phil Iron Age artifacts in San Remegio gets international attention
Without major industries and with copra production not as labor-intensive as the farming of sugar cane and other cash crops (with coconut trees taking years to grow), more and more people left the towns in the years after the second world war, leaving some of them frozen in time and looking like places that had seen better times. (Click here to visit link)
The cash crop boom of the 19th century
that gave birth to Cebu's towns.
HERITAGE | Great archaeological discovery of Phil Iron Age artifacts in San Remegio gets international attention
Cebu's prehistory is getting its much-needed material evidence when a team of archaeologists led by Prof. Jojo Bersales of the University of San Carlos unearthed artifacts that could be traced back to centuries before the Spanish colonization of the island and probably even before the island's trade with the Chinese and other Asian neighbors.
Lately, the find has drawn the attention of an international mix of researchers and academics from the world over.
