Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Abbreviations 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction 11
6. 1. An Early Transpacific Account of the Spice Islands by Andrés de Urdaneta (1536) 21
7. 2. Domingo de Salazar’s Letter to the King of Spain in Defense of the Indians and the Chinese of the Philippine Islands (1582) 37
8. 3. Juan Cobo’s Map of the Pacific World (1593) 53
9. 4. A Royal Decree of Philip III Regulating Trade between the Philippines and New Spain (1604) 61
10. 5. Manila’s Sangleys and a Chinese Wedding (1625) 73
11. 6. Don Luis Castilla Offers to Sell Land in Manila (1629) 91
12. 7. Idolatry and Apostasy in the 1633 Jesuit Annual Letter 115
13. 8. The Will of an Indian Oriental and her Chinos in Peru (1644) 131
14. 9. Francisco de Combés’s History of Mindanao and Jolo (1667) 141
15. 10. Between Fiction and History in the Spanish Pacific 157
16. 11. A Moluccan Crypto-Muslim before the Transpacific Inquisition (1623–1645) 171
17. 12. Constitutions and Rules of the Beatas Indias (1726) 189
18. 13. The Poetics of Praise and the Demands of Confession in the Early Spanish Philippines 205
19. 14. The Pacific Theater of the Seven Years’ War in a Latin Poem by an Indigenous Priest, Bartolomé Saguinsín (1766) 223
20. 15. A Prohibition on Digging Up the Bones of the Dead (1813) 239
21. Index 245