Author: de la Costa, Horacio
Publisher: Harvard University Press in Cambridge/MA, printed in the USA.
Year: 2013 [1967] [1961]
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm, quarto
Reference:
The Jesuits in the Philippines 1581-1768
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Description
modern reprint, hardbound, 732pp,
ISBN-10: 0674331427.
ISBN-13: 978-0674331426.
Reprint 2013 edition, Arriving in the Philippines via Mexico in the sixteenth century, the Jesuits founded a house (now a university) and, moving southward, began trying to convert the pagan Visayans and the warlike Moslems of Mindanao and Sulu. Their history is an inseparable part of the Islands and the Spanish Far Eastern empire: the faculty of the Jesuit College of Manila helped to frame colonial policy; Jesuits served as ambassadors, and sailed as chaplains in the Spanish ships that fought the Dutch for the sea lanes of Eastern Asia. This book, based on a wealth of documents in Jesuit and colonial archives, explores a little-known world essential to the history of the present-day Pacific.
Condition
new, excellent condition.
