
The Hispanization of the Philippines
Spanish Aims and Filippino Responses, 1565-1700
John Leddy Phelan(Author)
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 30. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-0-299-01814-6 (ISBN)
Description
After conquest of the Philippine archipelago in the late sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers launched a sweeping social program designed to bring about dramatic religious, political, and economic changes. But the limitations of Spanish colonial resources, together with the reactions of Filipinos themselves, combined to shape the outcome of that effort in unique and unexpected ways, argues John Leddy Phelan. With no wealth in the islands to attract conquistadores, conquest was accomplished largely by missionaries scattered among isolated native villages. Native chieftains served as intermediaries, thus enabling the Filipinos to react selectively to Spanish innovations. The result was a form of hispanization in which the resilient and adaptable Filipinos played a creative part.
Reviews / Votes
"A landmark work for both Hispanic imperial history and Southeast Asian studies by one of the most respected Latin American historians of his generation."-Alfred W. McCoy, series editor
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Illustrations
5 illustrations, 3 maps
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-01814-6 (9780299018146)
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John Leddy Phelan (1924-1976) was professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The People and the King, Portuguese Society in the Tropics, and The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.