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Conquest and pestilence in the early Spanish Philippines /

Scholars have long assumed that Spanish colonial rule had only a limited demographic impact on the Philippines. Filipinos, they believed, had acquired immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benign than what took place in the Americas because o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newson, Linda A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A world apart?
  • The role of disease
  • Colonial realities and population decline
  • Interpreting the evidence
  • The Visayas
  • Conquest and depopulation before 1600
  • Wars and missionaries in the seventeenth-century Visayas
  • Southern Luzon
  • Manila and Tondo
  • Southwest Luzon
  • Bikol
  • Pampanga and Bulacan
  • Northern Luzon
  • Ilocos and Pangasinan
  • Cagayan
  • Interior Luzon
  • Conclusion
  • Demographic change in the early Spanish Philippines.