
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers of people paying tribute to the Spanish crown. This suggests an uncomplicated story of an easy imposition of Spanish sovereignty.
But as Stephanie Mawson shows in her book, Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines (Cornell UP, 2023), the Spanish colonization of the Philippines was contested at every step, went on for centuries, and in many respects remained incomplete. Mawson tells the story of the diverse peoples who resisted Spanish colonization, in some cases for over 300 years. These included the “fugitives, apostates, and rebels, Chinese laborers, Moro slave raiders, native priestesses, Aeta headhunters, Pampangan woodcutters, and many others...
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies
By New Books Network4.7
1919 ratings
"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers of people paying tribute to the Spanish crown. This suggests an uncomplicated story of an easy imposition of Spanish sovereignty.
But as Stephanie Mawson shows in her book, Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines (Cornell UP, 2023), the Spanish colonization of the Philippines was contested at every step, went on for centuries, and in many respects remained incomplete. Mawson tells the story of the diverse peoples who resisted Spanish colonization, in some cases for over 300 years. These included the “fugitives, apostates, and rebels, Chinese laborers, Moro slave raiders, native priestesses, Aeta headhunters, Pampangan woodcutters, and many others...
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

32,039 Listeners

30,699 Listeners

7,617 Listeners

298 Listeners

2,150 Listeners

111 Listeners

1,796 Listeners

214 Listeners

107 Listeners

161 Listeners

62 Listeners

29 Listeners

190 Listeners

164 Listeners

25 Listeners

105 Listeners

60 Listeners

118 Listeners

841 Listeners

318 Listeners

8 Listeners

213 Listeners

250 Listeners

7 Listeners

2,550 Listeners