Austin Craig gathers nineteenth-century foreign accounts of the Philippines to restore the good name he felt Spanish writers had taken from the Filipinos. The core is Fedor Jagor’s travels through the islands, joined by Tomás de Comyn on their condition early in the century, the American naval officer Charles Wilkes, and Rudolf Virchow on the native peoples.
Valuable for its eyewitness pictures of Spanish-era island life, though some views of race and culture are those of their century. Download the free EPUB.