title: Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines (Asia Pacific Modern)
author:  John D. Blanco 
description: <DIV>Blanco keenly addresses the challenges and contradictions presented by Spanish colonialism in the age of enlightenment, modernity, and the birth of liberalism.</DIV> (<i>Philippine Studies</i> 2010-07-14)<br /><br /><DIV>Useful resource.</DIV> (Richard Fox Young <i>Journal Of Ecclesiastical History</i> 2011-06-29)<br /><br /><DIV>[A] delightful reading that brings hope for tying Filipino history and world history into greater affinity.</DIV> (James B. Tueller <i>World History Connected</i> 2010-10-19)
zlib_text: #  The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898
  
    
  
  ##  Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their
  peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in
  contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic,
  commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest
  relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
  
    
  
  #  Volume XXXIX, 1683–1690
  
  ##  Edited and annotated by  **Emma Helen Blair** and  **James Alexander
  Robertson** with historical introduction and additional notes by  **Edward
  Gaylord Bourne** .
  
  ##  Contents of Volume XXXIX
  
    1. [Preface](text00000.html#filepos0000003395) 9
    2. [Miscellaneous Documents, 1683–1690](text00000.html#filepos0000018490)
      1. [Dampier in the Philippines (concluded).](text00000.html#filepos0000019901) William Dampier; London, 1697 21
      2. [Petition for Dominican missionaries.](text00000.html#filepos0000206676) Francisco de Villalva; [Madrid, 1687