TY - JOUR
AU1 - Harris, Steve
AB - 102 JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, MARCH 2018 Regiment of the King, and José Antonio Correa earned a doctoral canonry and was appointed as a member of Manila’s cathedral chapter. Significantly, Mehl demonstrates that the inability to rely on Mexican soldiers obliged the colonial government in the Philippines to reluctantly build an army full of indigenous Filipino and Chinese mestizo soldiers. The creation of a new Chinese mestizo militia in the late eighteenth century saw armed Chinese troops guarding Manila’stall city walls in exchange for the privileges that militiamen enjoyed. In this way the shortcomings of Mexican soldiers “[c]reated avenues for the social empowerment of other local subordinate ethnic groups” (p. 244). This final chapter leaves the reader wanting to know more about the Asian soldiers of the Philippines in the age of revolutions; the men who underpinned the survival of Spain’s Asian empire as the Hispanic monarchy across much of the Americas collapsed. Mehl’sworkmakes clear that there is much work to be done for historians to fully comprehend the unique dynamics of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. Further studies of this colony’s history will in turn enrich understanding of the history of global Spanish empire and broader patterns 
TI - Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law by Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford (review)
JF - Journal of World History
DA - 2018-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/rage-for-order-the-british-empire-and-the-origins-of-international-law-dEyKjLoZpa
SP - 102
EP - 105
VL - 29
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -