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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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31 totalThe Philippine Islands, 1493–1898
Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XIX, 1620–1621 - Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Contents of Volume XIX
Illustrations
Preface
Documents of 1620
Reforms Needed in the Filipinas (concluded)
Aid against the Dutch requested
Treatise on the navigation of Filipinas, reduced to four chapters
Description
In this volume listeners step into the early seventeenth‑century Philippines, a crossroads of empire, faith, and commerce. The collection assembles letters, royal decrees, and eyewitness reports written by Spanish officials, Jesuit missionaries, and local leaders between 1620 and 1621. Edited with careful annotations, the material is framed by an introductory essay that situates each document within the broader currents of colonial administration and Asian trade.
The papers reveal urgent calls for reform—civil ordinances to curb the exploitation of indigenous labor, and papal‑influenced directives aimed at protecting native converts. They also expose the mounting threat of Dutch and English fleets, the precarious alliances with Moro pirates, and the lucrative flow of oriental goods valued at millions of pesos. Accompanied by facsimile illustrations of signatures and title pages, the recordings give a vivid sense of the diplomatic and economic stakes that defined the archipelago’s early colonial years.
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (495K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Distributed Proofreaders Team
Release date
2005-06-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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