Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World - From Mexico to the Philippines, 17651811

Informationen zum Autor 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 has published extensively in Spain on the missionary labor of the Jesuits in China and the expulsion of this religious order from Mexico in 1767. She is the author of Expulsión y Exilio de la Provincia Jesuita Mexicana, Flagellum Iesuitarum, and Dios y Belial en un mismo altar. Klappentext An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811. Zusammenfassung An exploration of Mexican military recruits and vagrants who were compelled by Spanish authorities to resettle in the Philippines between 1765 and 1811. Transcending the political! economic! and jurisdictional borders defined by the Spanish monarchy! Eva Maria Mehl conceives of colonial Mexico and the Spanish Philippines as historically intertwined fields of study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Intertwined histories in the Pacific: the Philippines and New Spain, 1565-1764; 2. Convicts and soldiers in the Spanish Empire; 3. Poverty, criminality, and the Bourbon State; 4. Levies for the Philippines in late colonial Mexico; 5. Spontaneous requests for deportation: tribulations of parents, youngsters, and wives; 6. Unruly Mexicans in Manila: imperial goals and colonial concerns; Appendix; Sources and bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Mehl, Eva Maria Mehl, Eva Maria (University of North Carolina Mehl, Mehl Eva Maria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2016
• EAN: 9781107136793
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13679-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Philippines, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples