Contents List of tables List of figures I ntroduction Isaac Donoso, Jos Gommans, and Ariel Lopez I Iberian Currents 1. Accidental Crossings, World Orders and the “Iberian Archive” in the Seventeenth- Century China Sea Jorge Flores 2. Occult Cosmopolitanism: Convivencia and Ethno-Religious Exclusion in Manila, 1590–1650 Ryan Crewe 3. Binukot and Recogimiento: Enduring and Changing Meanings of the Seclusion of Women in the Philippines Marya Svetlana Camacho 4. Beyond the Galleons: China Trade, Colonial Agenda and Regional Integration in the Eighteenth-century Philippines Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia 5. Asian Manufactured Goods in the Spanish Pacific: Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Teresa Canepa II Chinese Currents 6. Vittorio Riccio: An Entangled Voice in the 1662 Chinese Uprising in Manila Anna Busquets 7. The Global and the Local in Early Modern Manila’s Communication Spaces Birgit Tremml-Werner 8. Of Men, Gods and Beasts: The Boxer Codex and the View of the World from Sixteenth-century Manila Neilabh Sinha III Islamic Currents 9. Polarized Enemies – Christian-Muslim Dichotomy in the Early Modern Philippines Eberhard Crailsheim 10. Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century Tatiana Seijas 11. In Between Many Worlds of One Law: Arab, Malay and Filipino Legal Intermixtures of Sh.fi..sm Mahmood Kooria Bibliography List of contributors Index