1st Edition
The Dasmari�ases, Early Governors of the Spanish Philippines
Contents: Severed heads; In the shadow of Santiago; The right man for the job; A warm welcome for the new governor; Disputes with Bishop Salazar; The background to the expeditions to the Magat Valley; The Luis Pérez 1591 expedition to the Magat Valley; The other 1591 expeditions to the Magat Valley; The people of the Magat Valley; Uneasy dependence: relations with the Chinese; The pen and the sword: relations with the Japanese; Reporting home-and getting no reply; Treasures in heaven, and upon earth; A will but no way: the fateful expedition to Ternate; The young governor: Luis Pérez Dasmariñas; New ventures and old; Falling on hard times; Whimpers, and a bang; Epilogue. Challenging cultures: the qualities of a good governor; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
John Crossley began his latest career as a historian nearly twenty-five years ago. In 2011 he published Hernando de los RÃos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age (Ashgate), which has received excellent reviews. For many years before that he researched, lectured and taught mathematics at Oxford University, and then mathematics and computer science at Monash University, Australia. He started worked on the history of mathematics in the 1970s but from the 1990s has worked on Parisian music theory with Constant Mews and Carol Williams. About 2007 he started working on the early Spanish Philippines. He has published over 100 scholarly works including more than twenty books, and has successfully advised more than twenty PhD graduates. Now an Emeritus Professor at Monash University he is currently continuing with work on Parisian music theory but also on a translation of a previously unpublished history of the Philippines dating from around 1600, the Lilly Historia, which has provided many insights for this book.
