Historia de Filipinas
The history of Filipinasthe large edition of Manuel Blanco's Flora de Filipinos.
Basque people in the Philippines - Marciano R. De Borja
When the War of Independence had taken most of Spain's US imperium away, many of them moved to the Philippines, escaping the threat of legal prosecution and increasing constraints in their home country. The work explores new paths with research into the Hasque diasporas in the Far East. In many areas of Filipino history, the Baques stood out, and their history, as Marciano de Borja tells it, is full of living figures and intriguing details, while at the same it fills an important gap in the scientific literary work on the Bahian minority.
Documents, data and facts about the history of the Philippines so far.....
Copies of the Philippine document of 1578-1792 on the discoveries, histories and policies of the Philippines, taken from the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid between 1859 and 1865 by Ventura del Arco, civil servant in the Armed Forces Billroom. Some of the previous documentation in the collections deal with the Spanish colonisation of the Spanish Isles, their campaign against the Sangleys, their rivalry with the Dutch for Pacific controls and the creation of trading lanes between Manila and Acapulco.
Epistles, requests and reports from members of the Orders, especially the Jesuits, mirror their great impact in ecclesial and philippine politics. Much of the documentation in Vol. 3 concerns the ecclesiastical-state conflict between Monsignor Felipe Pardo (1677-1680), the Real Audiencia and Juan de Vargas (1678-1684).
Others refer to the activity of the early governors of the Philippines, such as Francisco de Sande, Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera and Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, and record the arrest of Gouverneurs Diego de Salcedo by the Inquisition for hereticism and his dying at sea, on his way to Mexico in court.
It also includes Simón de Anda y Salazar's epistles about his activity as Philippine gubernator during the 1762 UK Invasion and a short life story that seems to be the work of Ventura del Arco. Vol. 5 contains a copy of the 1621 monument to the Emperor of Hernando de las Rios Coronel, which describes the early explorers of the Philippines, the island's strategical and politic importance for the Crown, the great richness of these estates and the best means to preserve and develop them.