ABOUT THIS BOOK
Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas explore the diverse cultural, religious, and economic flows that shaped the early modern Philippine milieu. By zooming in from the global to the local, this book offers eleven fascinating Philippine case studies of early modern globalization.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of tables
List of figures

Introduction
Isaac Donoso, Jos Gommans, and Ariel Lopez

I Iberian Currents

1. Accidental Crossings, World Orders and the “Iberian Archive” in the Seventeenth- Century China Sea
Jorge Flores
2. Occult Cosmopolitanism: Convivencia and Ethno-Religious Exclusion in Manila, 1590–1650
Ryan Crewe
3. Binukot and Recogimiento: Enduring and Changing Meanings of the Seclusion of Women in the Philippines
Marya Svetlana Camacho
4. Beyond the Galleons: China Trade, Colonial Agenda and Regional Integration in the Eighteenth-century Philippines
Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia
5. Asian Manufactured Goods in the Spanish Pacific: Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Teresa Canepa

II Chinese Currents

6. Vittorio Riccio: An Entangled Voice in the 1662 Chinese Uprising in Manila
Anna Busquets
7. The Global and the Local in Early Modern Manila’s Communication Spaces
Birgit Tremml-Werner
8. Of Men, Gods and Beasts: The Boxer Codex and the View of the World from Sixteenth-century Manila
Neilabh Sinha

III Islamic Currents

9. Polarized Enemies – Christian-Muslim Dichotomy in the Early Modern Philippines
Eberhard Crailsheim
10. Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century
Tatiana Seijas
11. In Between Many Worlds of One Law: Arab, Malay and Filipino Legal Intermixtures of Shāfiʿīsm
Mahmood Kooria

Bibliography
List of contributors
Index