Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World

by Eva Maria Mehl

Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities in Madrid and the colonial governments and populations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 131650199X
• ISBN13: 9781316501993
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"