The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2

The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2

A Reader of Primary Sources

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific. It may be used in conjunction with Volume 1 or on its own. While its focus continues to be on the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific, it more strongly emphasizes the challenges faced by secular and ecclesiastical authorities in their attempts to control a distant colony and reshape its culture, from the complex forms of identify formation in the diverse world of the colonial Philippines to the complexities of inter-imperial rivalry in East and Southeast Asia as a whole. As with Volume 1, each document is introduced by a specialist in the field and includes a list of suggestions for further reading. An introductory essay surveys current work in the field of early modern Spanish Pacific studies and provides a lengthy bibliography.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
      • Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón
    • Bibliography of Recent Work in Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies
    • 1. “Indescribable Misery” (Mis)translated: A Letter from Manila’s Chinese Merchants to the Spanish King (1598)
      • Yangyou Fang
    • 2. The First Biography of a Filipino: The Life of Miguel Ayatumo (1673)
      • Jorge Mojarro
    • 3. Other Agents of Empire in the Spanish Pacific World (1755)
      • Kristie Patricia Flannery
    • 4. A Chinese Ethnography of Spanish Manila (1812)
      • Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel
    • 5. On the Legal Grounds of the Conquest of the Philippines (1568)
      • Guillaume Gaudin
    • 6. A Catholic Conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean: The Mental Geography of Giambattista Lucarelli on His Journey from Mexico to China (1578)
      • David Salomoni
    • 7. From Manila to Madrid via Portuguese India: Travels and Plans for the Conquest of Malacca by the Soldier Alonso Rodríguez (1582–84)
      • Guillaume Gaudin
    • 8. Frustrated at the Door: Alessandro Valignano Evaluates the Jesuits’ China Mission (1588)
      • Liam Matthew Brockey
    • 9. A Spanish Utopian Island in Japan (1599)
      • Giuseppe Marino
    • 10. Two Friars Protest the Restriction on Missionaries Traveling to Japan (1604?–5)
      • Natalie Cobo
    • 11. A Layman’s Account of Japanese Christianity (1619)
      • Noemí Martín Santo
    • 12. The Sound and the Fury: A Vigorous Admonition from the King of Spain to the Audiencia of Manila (1620)
      • Jean-Noël Sánchez
    • 13. The Deportation of Free Black People from Seventeenth-Century Manila (1636–37, 1652)
      • Diego Javier Luis
    • 14. Filipino Cultural Practices in Colonial Contexts, as Described by Franciscan Juan de Jesús (1703)
      • David R. M. Irving
    • 15. Race, Gender, and Colonial Rule in an Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines (1763)
      • Ernest Rafael Hartwell
    • 16. Censoring Tagalog Texts at the Tribunal of the Inquisition in New Spain (1772)
      • Marlon James Sales
    • Index

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