Spanish printing in the PhilippinesPurpose The access to the rare originals of the early Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines remains problematic. The reference librarians often are restricted to directing the students and scholars to the secondary resources that are available both in print and...
(Historical Terms) the war between the US and Spain (1898) resulting in Spain's withdrawal from Cuba and its cession of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, ...
The Philippines was then a colonial backwater; its main usefulness to the Spanish Empire was as a trading outpost for the profitable Galleon Trade. Only in the second half of the 19th century, after the Philippines had been opened to world trade with the opening of the Suez Canal, did publ...
This is not to say that a Filipino self does not exist or will not emerge as a mature, independent entity in the future, but only that its representations in the film medium must be viewed in light of its colonial past. The local film industry in the Philippines is sometimes referred to...
The thread is open for your opinion. Both countries were ruled by their colonial masters for more than 300 years. The Philippines was seized by the US form Spain before it gained it's independence while East Timor was taken by Indonesia form Portugal and ruled the country almost as long as...
Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the PhilippinesTrade in the plants and animals of the New World exerted a profound influence on the imaginations of Filipino architects and stonemasons. Eighteenth-century church faades, designed and ...
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition Launch an Inquisition asSpain A reference to the catchphrase in the Monty Python skit 'The Spanish Inquisition'. Non Sufficit Orbis Win a regular game asPhilip II An inscription on medals given in Philip II's reign, meaning 'the world is not enough'. ...
Colonial PossessionsAfter Columbus showed that you could get somewhere by sailing across the Atlantic (1492-1493) and Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope all the way to India (1497-1498), it was clear that European sailing technology was ready to go anywhere in the world. In...
Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870–1925 CE David Max Findley, Noel Amano, Ivana Biong, Greg Bankoff, Patricia Irene Dacudao, Francis Gealogo, Rebecca Hamilton,...
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Realonda (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse riˈsal]; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and...