Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World

ISBN-13: 9781316501993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 324 str.

Wilmington) Mehl Eva Maria (University of North Carolina

Opis

An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Intertwined histories in the Pacific: the Philippines and New Spain, 1565–1764; 2. Convicts and soldiers in the Spanish Empire; 3. Poverty, criminality, and the Bourbon State; 4. Levies for the Philippines in late colonial Mexico; 5. Spontaneous requests for deportation: tribulations of parents, youngsters, and wives; 6. Unruly Mexicans in Manila: imperial goals and colonial concerns; Appendix; Sources and bibliography; Index.