The following 720 pages are divided into two volumes,each of which, for the convenience of the reader, is paged separatelyand has its index, or table of contents:
VOLUME I
I. The Old Philippines’ Industrial Development
(Chapters of an Economic History)
I.—Agriculture and Landholding at the time of the Discoveryand Conquest. II.—Industries at the Time of Discovery andConquest. III.—Trade and Commerce at the Time of Discovery andConquest. IV.—Trade and Commerce; the Period of Restriction.V.—The XIX Century and Economic Development.
By Professor Conrado Benitez
II. The Filipinos’ Part in the Philippines’ Past
(Pre-Spanish Philippine History A. D. 43–1565; Beginningsof Philippine Nationalism.)
By Professor Austin Craig
VOLUME II
III. The Former Philippines thruForeign Eyes
(Jagor’s Travels in the Philippines; Comyn’s State ofthe Philippines in 1810; Wilkes’ Manila and Sulu in 1842;White’s Manila in 1819; Virchow’s Peopling of thePhilippines; 1778 and 1878; English Views of the People and Prospectsof the Philippines; and Karuth’s Filipino Merchants of the Early1890s)
Edited by Professor Craig
Made in Manila—Press of E. C.McCullough & Co.—The Work of Filipinos
Editor’s Explanations and Acknowledgments
This work is pre-requisite to the needed re-writing ofPhilippine history as the story of its people. The present treatment,as a chapter of Spanish history, has been so long accepted thatdeviation from the standard story without first furnishing proof woulddemoralize students and might create the impression that a change ofgovernment justified re-stating the facts of the past in the way whichwould pander to its pride.
With foreigners’ writing, the extracts herein have beenextensive, even to the inclusion of somewhat irrelevant matter to saveany suspicion that the context might modify the quotation’smeaning. The choice of matter has been to supplement what is nowavailable in English, and, wherever possible, reference data have takenthe place of quotation, even at the risk of giving a skeletonyeffect.
Another rule has been to give no personal opinion, where a quotationwithin reasonable limits could be found to convey the same idea, and,where given, it is because an explanation is