Was Spain interested in doing this in Cuba?Personally I believe Cuba would become a major military port connecting European Powers and the Americas, radiate their influence from there. Kinda like American navy in modern Japan.
Would a break-up of the Philippines into several separate, independent states be possible in this TL?We Filipinos may get eaten up by another colonial power, but if we're lucky, we play the various colonial powers off against one another and remain independent, establishing a relatively stable republic as a regional power, possibly as a junior partner in whatever Japan gets up to.
Worst case scenario, we get sodomized by Japan for a couple generations and are left as a poorer tropical Korea.
Would a break-up of the Philippines into several separate, independent states be possible in this TL?
OK.Hm... nah.
I mean, you could break off the Maguindanao and Sulu sultanates away from the main part of the Philippines, but otherwise, eh. The Philippines as an idea and as a nation is already there. It's possible, but implausible.
OK.
Also, when did the idea of the Philippines as a nation become widespread?
The Philippines may well have managed to break from Spain. The island republic--or republics if unity does not hold--might get swallowed up by another imperial power. Then again, the Philippines might not: If it manages to establish a credible government and perhaps manages to balance off rival imperial powers, it could persist. Things could develop interestingly from that point.
Puerto Rico, I think, has the potential to develop a profitable and peaceable relationship with Spain, with a certain amount of self-government under a rule from Spain that no one has much problem with.
Cuba, in contrast, has the potential to evolve very badly even if the Cuban rebellion is repressed. How long until it explodes again, and what will other powers do?
What will happen to Spanish Micronesia? On the one hand, Spain was practically unchallenged here. On the other hand, well, what's the point?
We Filipinos may get eaten up by another colonial power, but if we're lucky, we play the various colonial powers off against one another and remain independent, establishing a relatively stable republic as a regional power, possibly as a junior partner in whatever Japan gets up to.
Worst case scenario, we get sodomized by Japan for a couple generations and are left as a poorer tropical Korea.
What will happen to Spanish Micronesia? On the one hand, Spain was practically unchallenged here. On the other hand, well, what's the point?
Or split between the two of them, no?They get sold to the highest bidder, of course. Either Japan or Germany.
The USA originally intended to only take Luzon but literally everyone in America and Europe told them just to take the whole thing if they were going to do that. Something something humanitarian, something something don't split up a peoples or something of the sort.Or split between the two of them, no?
Hm... a generation earlier, but these islands were made into a common culture after three centuries of Spanish rule before that.
Philippine nationalism as an actual movement I think started in the early 19th century, as a reaction against Spain assuming direct control over these islands (before that, the Philippines were administered as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain). The corruption and outdated racism of the friars led to a secularization (as in, giving parishes to non-religious order priests) movement, which culminated in a revolt in Cavite in 1872 which led to the execution of three Filipino priests: Gomez, Burgos, and Zamora. Those executions weighed heavily on the generation that came after them, the generation which led the revolution.
The USA originally intended to only take Luzon but literally everyone in America and Europe told them just to take the whole thing if they were going to do that. Something something humanitarian, something something don't split up a peoples or something of the sort.
I think America taking only Luzon will be better than OTL we would be spared of the attention to the secessionists in Mindanao.
Visayas actually split during the revolution there is a Visayas republic during that time, so a split is possible.You're forgetting the roots of Moro secessionism in the atrocities of the 20th century. Also the impossibility of dividing the Philippines so late in the first place.
Luzon and Visayas at least have been united since the beginning, and all the colonial powers that tried to get their claws on Mindanao had to try to get around the fact that Mindanao was part of the Spanish East Indies, which they failed in doing.