The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1868) describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines.

Antonio de Morga (Author), Henry E. J. Stanley (Translated by)

9781108010733, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2010

480 pages, 2 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1868 volume is the first publication in English of a book originally published in Mexico in 1609, which describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines in the sixteenth century, and the administration of this part of the Spanish empire. The introductory essay situates the book in the context of the historiography of the Spanish empire, and identifies parallels for the colonial experience, and especially for the treatment of indigenous peoples, in the issues confronting the mid-nineteenth-century British empire.

Translator's preface
Dedication
Foreword
1. Of the first discoveries of the Eastern Isles
2. Of the government of Dr. Francisco de Sande
3. Of the government of Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa
4. Of the government of Dr. Santiago de Vera
5. Of the government of Gomez Perez Dasmariñas
6. Of the government of Don Francisco Tello
7. Of the government of Don Pedro de Acuña
8. Account of the Philippine Islands
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]