Electronic Essays


Autonomous Filipinos. How Colonial Subjects Carved out Realms of Self-Driven Freedom

         While Formally Subject to Spanish Imperial Rule and Exactions, 1565-1898

                     (posted 23 April 2017, with minor editing 11 June 2017)

 

Bicol Pueblo Officials in the 1780s.  Filipino Initiative (posted 16 April 2016)

 

A Bishop’s Complaint, Camarines and Albay, 1760 (uploaded July 2021)

 

The British Occupation of Manila, 1762-1765 (all posted 17 May 2015)

                                 The British Occupation through Franciscan Eyes

                                 Bibliography--Manuscripts

                                 Bibliography--Books, Articles, Theses, and Dissertations

                                 Chronological List of Dates of Letters in AFIO on the British Occupation

                                 Missing Correspondence

Available as separate web page (created February 2024),

https://sites.google.com/view/british-occupation-of-manila?usp=sharing



Franciscan Attempts to Ameliorate Curate Misbehavior (posted December 2020)

 

Franciscan Responses to Clavería’s Decree on Apellidos (posted September 2021)

 

Franciscan Sources and What They Tell Us about Highland Missions in the Philippines under

         Spanish Rule (posted 31 December 2015)

 Available as separate web page (created February 2024)

https://sites.google.com/view/franciscan-sources-highlanders?usp=sharing

 


Gaming the System: The Tribute System in the Spanish Philippines, 1565-1884 (23 Nov. 2014)


Gueruela and Endaya. Two Early Eighteenth-Century Anti-Franciscan Campaigns in Camarines.  (April 2021)

 

The Gumaca Petition of 1710 (posted January 2021)


The Hispanic Society of America's 2008 Visit and Reports

 

The Ideal and the Real in Filipino Lowland Life. Franciscan Descriptions of the Ways Filipinos

         Actually Lived in the Eighteenth Century (posted 19 February 2016)


On the Ground. Snapshots and Snippets: Reports from Philippine Provinces, 1565-1898.

 

P. Fr. Vicente Inglés’ Report from 1720 (posted May 2015)

 

1764 to October 1776: Franciscan Views on Conditions in the Provincial Philippines

                                 (posted 15 August 2015)

 

Snapshots into the Philippine Past (posted 6 March 2017)

 

Tayabas in 1823 (posted 9 September 2014)

                                
Three Cases of Partially Documented Franciscan Parish Priest Confrontations with Colonial

                                 Authority (posted July 2021)

 

Tiangues in the Philippines before 1898

         Short introductory essay (10 August 2014) followed by province and pueblo references

                     indicating market days.

 

Trade and Samar in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

                                 (posted 18 September 2016, revised in October 2016)


Travel Times in the Philippines before 1900

 

Turn About. A Proposal for Future Research in Philippine History, 1565-1898 (18 April 2016)

 

Using Galan for a Different Way of Viewing Philippine Regional History (posted 9 Sept. 2014)

 

Who Was P. José Torrubia, O.F.M.? (posted June 2020)