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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 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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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 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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0:19

ILLUSTRATIONS

1:04

PREFACE

21:01

DOCUMENTS OF 1751–1762

1:11

USURPATION OF INDIAN LANDS BY FRIARS

12:53

MORO RAIDS REPULSED BY VISAYANS

21:02

AUGUSTINIAN PARISHES AND MISSIONS, 1760

9:33

LATER AUGUSTINIAN AND DOMINICAN MISSIONS

1:56:39

EVENTS IN FILIPINAS, 1739–1762

1:04:26

MEMORIAL OF 1765

0:19

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A richly illustrated volume brings together a patchwork of reports, letters, and maps that capture the Philippines between 1739 and the mid‑1760s. Readers will find detailed missionary accounts from the Augustinian and Dominican orders, vivid ethnographic notes on the central Luzon tribes, and a series of rare cartographic facsimiles that trace the archipelago’s geography as seen by 18th‑century explorers.

Against this scholarly backdrop, the text recounts a turbulent colonial era marked by native uprisings, the seizure of an Acapulco galleon by the English, and fierce Moro pirate raids that devastated coastal villages. It also follows Governor Arandía’s reform attempts, the royal fiscal Viana’s urgent appeals for relief, and the king’s directives to protect indigenous land rights—painting a clear picture of a society in crisis and the competing forces shaping its future.

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 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 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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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg.

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2017-05-17

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Public domain in the USA.

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