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 VIII, 1591–1593**
  
  ##  Edited and annotated by  **Emma Helen Blair** and  **James Alexander
  Robertson** with historical introduction and additional notes by  **Edward
  Gaylord Bourne** .
  
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  #  **Contents of Volume VIII**
  
    * [ Preface ](text00000.html#filepos0000006302) ... 9
    * [ Documents of 1591 ](text00000.html#filepos0000028296)
      * [ The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands ](text00000.html#filepos0000030736) ( _concluded_ ). Domingo de Salazar, and others; Manila, January–March ... 25
      * [ Liberty of the Indians in the Philippinas ](t