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Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765-1811
Eva Maria Mehl
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Description for Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765-1811
hardcover. An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811. Num Pages: 324 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1FMP; 1KLCM; 3JF; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities in Madrid and the colonial governments and populations of New Spain and the Philippines in the late Bourbon era. Ultimately, forced migration from Mexico City to Manila illustrates that the histories of the Spanish Philippines and colonial Mexico have ... Read more
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities in Madrid and the colonial governments and populations of New Spain and the Philippines in the late Bourbon era. Ultimately, forced migration from Mexico City to Manila illustrates that the histories of the Spanish Philippines and colonial Mexico have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107136793
SKU
V9781107136793
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About Eva Maria Mehl
Eva Maria Mehl is an assistant professor of Latin American history and world history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She received a doctorate in history from the University of Alicante, Spain in 2002 and she also holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Davis (2011). Under her maiden name, Eva M. St Clair Segurado, she ... Read more
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