The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The forty-fifth volume gathers Spanish records on the Philippines, documenting colonial government, trade, Catholic missions, and education for readers studying the islands’ history. When Manila’s Chinese commerce became a matter of royal policy in 1736, the debate set its economic value against the Crown’s demand for religious conformity. By 1861, officials were revising the islands’ university curriculum to bring it closer to the system used in Spain. An account of village schools reports broad access to basic learning while noting that girls’ reading often centered on devotional works.
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