Author: Otto Diederik van den MuijzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Four Centuries of Dutch-Philippine Economic Relations, 1600-2000
Author: Otto Diederik van den MuijzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Four Centuries of Dutch-Philippine Economic Relations, 1600-2000
Author: Otto Diederik van den MuijzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Manila-Acapulco Galleons : the Treasure Ships of the Pacific
Author: Shirley FishPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145677543X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
During the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the transpacific treasure galleons sailed annually from Manila to Acapulco. In Manila, the vessel was loaded with the scented spices of the East, luxurious silks from China, exquisite hand crafted lacquerware from Japan and a multitude of Oriental goods that the Spaniards of New Spain longed to own. The returning galleon from Acapulco to Manila, carried as much as 2.5 million silver pesos in payment of the goods sent to the New Spain in the previous year, as well as a yearly silver subsidy of 250,000 reales for the maintenance of the colonial government in the Philippines. But while the galleons mainly sailed alone and unaccompanied from Manila to Acapulco and vice versa, they were vulnerable to a host of calamities and misfortunes. A fire on board the vessel or a terrifying storm could end the voyage and the lives of every one on the ship even before the galleon was able to reach land. Additionally, the commanders of the galleons were always threatened by lurking pirates and privateers who preyed on the vessels and coveted the treasures they carried. The book describes in detail how the galleons were attacked at sea and how they fought against enemy vessels, as well as how many of the ships sank or were shipwrecked over the years. It also covers their management, construction, manning, weaponry, navigation, daily life on the ship, provisions, cargoes and voyages. The book contains an annotated list of the galleons sailing between the Philippines and Mexico from 1565 to 1815. This informative book is the first of its kind to cover such an expansive history of the Pacific galleons which up to this point had remained largely untold.
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945
Author: Daniel F. DoeppersPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299305104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century's most formidable challenges. This innovative history traces nearly a century in the life of the megacity of Manila to show how it grew and what sustained it. Focusing on the city's key commodities-rice, produce, fish, fowl, meat, milk, flour, coffee-Daniel F. Doeppers explores their complex interconnections, the changing ecology of the surrounding region, and the social fabric that weaves together farmers, merchants, transporters, storekeepers, and door-to-door vendors.
Capital and Knowledge in Asia
Author: Heidi DahlesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134409338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book focuses on the key role played by producer services in shaping new business areas and new patterns for social mobility, and their interdependence with the State and the emergence and flourishing of the new professions.
Directors of Urban Change in Asia
Author: Peter J.M. NasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134267371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, on national, regional and local levels. It also makes clear that the less successful cities have tended to lack such leaders.
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
"Literatur-overzicht" issued with v. 95.
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Author: Anthropologica
Author: War and the Environment
Author: Charles Edwin ClosmannPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603443800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the environmental ravages of trench warfare in World War I, the exploitation of Philippine forests for military purposes from the Spanish colonial period through 1945, William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth tactics during his 1864-65 March to the Sea, and the effects of wartime policy upon U.S. and German conservation practices during World War II.