Format:
1 online resource (484 pages)
ISBN:
9781583677964
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- PART I - LIBERATION TRANSFORMED -- CHAPTER I - Towards a People's History (An Introduction) -- Colonial Scholarship -- The Task at Hand -- Motivators of History -- The Inarticulate in History -- Redressing the Imbalance -- Limitations and a Beginning -- Rediscovering the Past -- The Unifying Thread -- The Motive Force -- CHAPTER II - The First "Liberation" -- Society in Transition -- Unity in Feudal Shell -- The Moorish Conquest -- The Catholic Monarchs -- The New Tastes of Europe -- Primitive Accumulation -- Mercantilism -- Conquest as Business -- The Religious Justification -- Kings and Popes -- The Patronato Real -- The Religious Garb -- Friars vs. Encomenderos -- The Great Debate -- Resolution of the Conflict -- The Elections -- Conquest Legitimized -- CHAPTER III - Baranganic Societies -- Proto-Anthropologists -- Aborting Historical Trend -- Pre-Spanish Settlements -- Subsistence Economies -- Transitional Societies -- Administrators not Rulers -- The Dependent Population -- Slavery - A Misnomer -- Insights from Other Experiences -- Concepts of Property -- Disintegration of Communalism -- The Resultant Social System -- Summary -- CHAPTER IV - Pacification and Exploitation -- Crown and Conquistador -- Origins of the Encomienda -- Taming the Encomiendas -- Philippine Encomienda not a Land Grant -- Abuses of the Encomenderos -- Administrative Agencies -- Encomienda and Hacienda -- Instruments of Pacification -- The Tribute -- Forced Labor -- The Bandala -- Divide and Rule -- The Intermediaries -- CHAPTER V - The Colonial Landscape -- Colonial Outpost -- Economic Neglect -- Moves for Abandonment -- The Compromise -- Plural Economies -- The Chinese Role -- Reducciones -- Population Centers -- Acceleration of Stratification -- Colonial Intermediaries -- Third Prop of Power.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780853453949
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780853453949
Language:
English
