The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol. 38, 1674-1683)

This volume is part of a monumental 55-volume compilation of primary source documents detailing the history of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, from 1493 to 1898. The complete series was compiled and translated into English by American scholars in the early 20th century, shortly after the American acquisition of the Philippines, to make previously inaccessible historical records available to a wider audience. The objective of this massive undertaking was to illuminate the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the archipelago through contemporaneous writings. This particular volume, Volume XXXVIII, focuses on the years 1674 to 1683, presenting a collection of translated documents from various sources. Key content includes a continuation of the account of the Philippines by the Dominican writer Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, discussions on the state of the clergy, and extensive records of numerous insurrections and revolts by the native Filipinos against the Spanish colonial government throughout the seventeenth century. It also incorporates the firsthand account of English buccaneer William Dampier’s sojourn in the Philippines during the late 1680s. The document offers critical insight into the complex relationship between the Spanish colonizers, the Catholic missionaries, and the indigenous Filipino population in the late 17th century, a period marked by both Spanish authority and native resistance.

The book is considered valuable. It is advised that researchers use digital copy rather than physical books for preservation purposes. APA Citation (7th Edition) Blair, E. H., & Robertson, J. A. (Eds.). (1906). The 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 (Vol. 38, 1674-1683). The Arthur H. Clark Company.