title: History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
author: Luis H. Francia
description: <b>Praise for Luis H. Francia</b><br /><br /> "A new take on the Filipino story" -- <i>Inquirer.net</i>
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 XXVII, 1636–37
  
  ##  Edited and annotated by  **Emma Helen Blair** and  **James Alexander
  Robertson** with historical introduction and additional notes by  **Edward
  Gaylord Bourne** .
  
  ##  Contents of Volume XXVII
  
    1. [Preface](text00000.html#filepos0000004616) 9
    2. [Documents of 1636](text00000.html#filepos0000020735)
      1. [Letter to Felipe IV](text00000.html#filepos0000021642) . Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Cavite, June 30 21
      2. [Letter to Corcuera](text00000.html#filepos0000047969) . Felipe IV; Madrid, October 11 36
      3. [Royal decrees](text00000.html#f