Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Tables 7
4. List of Figures 7
5. Introduction 9
6. I Iberian Currents
7. Picture 26
8. 1 Accidental Crossings, World Orders and the “Iberian Archive” in the Seventeenth-Century China Sea 27
9. 2 Occult Cosmopolitanism: Convivencia and Ethno-Religious Exclusion in Manila, 1590–1650 55
10. 3 Binukot and Recogimiento: Enduring and Changing Meanings of the Seclusion of Women in the Philippines 75
11. 4 Beyond the Galleons: China Trade, Colonial Agenda and Regional Integration in the Eighteenth-Century Philippines 115
12. 5 Asian Manufactured Goods in the Spanish Pacific: Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 137
13. II Chinese Currents
14. Picture 168
15. 6 Vittorio Riccio: An Entangled Voice in the 1662 Chinese Uprising in Manila 169
16. 7 The Global and the Local in Early Modern Manila’s Communication Spaces 191
17. 8 Of Men, Gods and Beasts: The Boxer Codex and the View of the World from Sixteenth-Century Manila 217
18. III Islamic Currents
19. Picture 256
20. 9 Polarized Enemies: The Christian-Muslim Dichotomy in the Early Modern Philippines 257
21. 10 Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century 287
22. 11 In Between Many Worlds of One Law: Arab, Malay and Philippine Legal Intermixtures of Shāfiʿīsm 311
23. Bibliography 333
24. List of Contributors 371
25. Index 375