The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific.

Acknowledgements, Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction. - Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón, Bibliography of Recent Work in Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies, 1.Indescribable Misery (Mis)Translated: A Letter from Manila's Chinese Merchants to the Spanish King (1598). - Yangyou Fang, 2.The First Biography of a Filipino: The Life of Miguel Ayatumo (1673). -Jorge Mojarro, 3,Other Agents of Empire in the Spanish Pacific World (1755). - Kristie Patricia Flannery, 4. A Chinese Ethnography of Spanish Manila (1812). - Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel, 5. On the Legal Grounds of the Conquest of the Philippines (1568). - Guillaume Gaudin, 6. A Catholic Conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean: The Mental Geography of Giambattista Lucarelli on His Journey from Mexico to China (1578). - David Salomoni, 7. From Manila to Madrid via Portuguese India: Travels and Plans for the Conquest of Malacca by the Soldier Alonso Rodríguez (1582-1584). - Guillaume Gaudin, 8. Frustrated at the Door: Alessandro Valignano Evaluates the Jesuits' China Mission (1588). - Liam M. Brockey, 9. A Spanish Utopian Island in Japan (1599). - Giuseppe Marino, 10. Two Friars Protest the Restriction on Missionaries Traveling to Japan (1605). - Natalie Cobo, 11. A Layman's Account of the Japanese Christianity (1619). - Noemi Martín Santo, 12. The sound and the fury: A Vigorous Admonition from the King of Spain to the Audiencia of Manila (1620). - Jean-Noël Sanchez, 13. The Deportation of Free Black People from Seventeenth Century Manila (1636). - Diego Luis, 14. Filipino Cultural Practices in Colonial Contexts, as Described by Franciscan Juan de Jesús (1703). - David R. M. Irving, 15. Race, Gender, and Colonial Rule in an Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines (1763). - Ernest Rafael Hartwell, 16. Censoring Tagalog Texts at the Tribunal of the Inquisition in New Spain (1772). - Marlon James Sales, Index.