Spanish Colonial Period brick samples dating to the 19th century from the Municipalities of Liliw and Pagsanjan in Laguna, Philippines was investigated. These samples were obtained from two church structures, a church bell tower from Liliw and a church convent from Pagsanjan. Combined ...
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 concluding chapter discusses demographic change in the Philippines during the early Spanish colonial period. The initial impact of Spanish conquest and the types of transformations the Spanish sought to bring to native societies in Southeast Asia and in the Americas were similar. However, the Phi...
Though it is true that all the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands never had Spanish as their mother tongue, it is however unjust to state that this language was never spoken in the Philippines on a national scale. The mere fact that Spanish began to be the official language of the Philip...
Characterization of Historica Lime Mortar from the Spanish Colonial Period in the Philippinesdoi:10.6092/ISSN.1973-9494/7164Jan-Michael C. CaymeAniano N. Jr. Asor
The briefSpanish-American War(1898), which permitted the United States to take Cuba, Puerto Rico, thePhilippines, and other colonial possessions from Spain, also effectively prevented Puerto Ricans from putting into effect their new government. In May a U.S. naval force led by Adm.W.T. Samps...
Philippines - Spanish Colonization, Culture, Trade: Spanish colonial motives were not, however, strictly commercial. The Spanish at first viewed the Philippines as a stepping-stone to the riches of the East Indies (Spice Islands), but, even after the Por
Outside the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish is spoken in virtually all of Central and South America except Brazil (where Portuguese is spoken), as well as in the Canary Islands, parts of Morocco, and the Philippines. Latin American Spanish has a number of regional dialects; all are derived from ...