This volume is the fifty-third entry in the monumental 55-volume series, The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, which was compiled and translated during the early American colonial period. The project was conceived to make a vast array of primary source material on the Spanish history of the Philippines accessible to English-speaking scholars and government officials, following the islands' transfer to the United States. This specific volume serves as the comprehensive bibliography and research guide for the entire series. It meticulously catalogs an extensive collection of both printed works and, more importantly, a substantial body of unpublished manuscripts related to the archipelago. The volume is devoted to pointing out the sources that detail the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the islands during the three centuries of Spanish rule. It is a fundamental and critical reference work that laid the groundwork for modern scholarship on the nation's colonial past.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 : bibliography (Vol. 53)