Missions were to convert/conform the indigenous population to Christianity and servitude to the Spanish empire‚ while increasing imports and exports of trade goods that would increase the power and wealth of the Spanish Monarchy. As time went by Premium United States Colonialism Indigenous peoples...
Spanish missionaries brought the first printing press to the Philippines in the 1590s. Tomas Pinpin, a Chinese merchant who had been converted to Christianity, put up the shop to house the press. He worked under the tutelage of the Dominican friars to produce in 1593 what is believed to be ...
Colonialism's legacies are myriad. Among them, and certainly not least of all as this excellent and eclectic collection of essays suggests, is its ability to generate certain kinds of paradigms about the past. The aim of the essays in this collection, product of a conference held at Fordham ...
Those from warm climates - such as the Philippines - did not need such an adaptation because of the naturalheatand humidity. These cultural and physiological bases for flat noses notwithstanding, colonialism changed the way we looked at our faces, and noses. ...
European explorers and conquerors began coming to the Americas in droves after 1492. While the Spanish and Portuguese took the lead in colonization, the French soon began sending explorers of their own to the New World. Answer and Explanation: ...
To fit with the burgeoning nationalism in Spain, liberal Spanish intellectuals like Antonio Canovas del Castillo and Emilio Castelar presented new meanings of the term “empire.” Compared to other European colonial powers, Canovas viewed Spanish colonialism as more “benevolent.” Before the conflict...
Of particular interest are the “late Spanish” (1870–1898) and the “early U.S.” (1902–1925) periods (for more on periodisation, see Supplementary Notes). In those fifty-five years, both administrations expended great effort to fully incorporate the colonial Philippines into global markets...
involvement in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines (the three colonies remaining to her at the end of the nineteenth century) became symbolic of the struggle between two definitions of nation: that of Spanish overseas empire; and that of the colonies seeking to define themselves on their own...
Was the Haitian Revolution against colonialism? Did Haitian Revolution end slavery? Did the Haitian Revolution influence other revolutions? Did the Haitian Revolution bring peace or chaos? Did the French agree with the Haitian Revolution? Did women fight in the Haitian Revolution? Was Britain involved...
But these accusations can be dismissed in light of the urgent need now to add the modern crimes of Imperialism, Colonialism, and Racism to the content of the original, merely anti-Catholic "Black Legend." Reading a lot of recent historians, one might think that Rudyard Kipling had invaded ...