Philippine Confluence

Jos Gommans and Ariel Lopez (eds)

Philippine Confluence Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800

Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas explore the diverse cultural, religious, and economic flows that shaped the early modern Philippine milieu. By zooming in from the global to the local, this book offers eleven fascinating Philippine case studies of early modern globalization.

An exploration in the multiple cultural and social dynamics that shaped the Philippine Islands in the early modern period, this inspiring volume should be essential reading not only for scholars of southeast Asia and the Iberian empires but for all students interested in the intricacies of global history. – Giuseppe Marcocci, Associate Professor in Iberian History, Exeter College, University of Oxford.

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: ROUTES AND ROOTS

Publication date May 2020 NUR 680 ISBN 9789087283391 e-pdf 9789400603660 epub 9789400603677 Language English Price € 52.50 £ 47.50 $ 59.50 Format Paperback illustrated 156 x 234 mm Page extent 390 Cover design Geert de Koning Imprint LUP Academic Jos Gommans is Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. He wrote extensively on the medieval and early modern history of South and Central Asia and on Dutch Colonial History. He is also the director of the Leiden-based Cosmopolis Programme.

Ariel Lopez is Assistant Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines. He received his PhD, MA and BA in History from Leiden University as part of the Cosmopolis Programme. He has published articles on piracy and slave-raiding in early modern Philippines and Southeast Asia.