This document is Volume 54, the first of two concluding index volumes, of the monumental 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898. Published in the early 20th century, the series is one of the most exhaustive English-language collections of primary source materials concerning the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. The compilation, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, contains English translations of contemporaneous books and manuscripts, meticulously documenting the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the islands from their earliest contact with European nations to the end of the 19th century. This particular volume provides the analytical index for topics beginning with the letters A through I, serving as a critical navigational tool for researchers of the vast collection of historical documentation contained in the preceding fifty-three volumes. The series was established as a foundational, and often controversial, reference work for scholars of Philippine history following the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War.
The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898: analytical index to the series, A–I (Vol. 54)