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Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Moro, and Japanese Coastal Threats, 1570-1800
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. (Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1573-0044
2021 (English)In: Piracy in World History / [ed] Stefan Eklöf Amirell; Hans Hägerdal; Bruce Buchan, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, p. 199-223Chapter in book (Refereed)
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Abstract [en]

In the early seventeenth century people of Mindanao apparently “helped those of Sulu in their piratical excursions, frequently invading the beaches of our islands, destroying their fields and forests, burning their villages, forcing them into a fortress or to flee into the mountainous region of the interior.” These lines were not recorded by contemporaries, however, rather they were penned by a nineteenth-century Spanish historian of military background, Pio de Pazos y Vela Hidalgo (1841−1913), who personally participated in an expedition against Mindanao rebels in 1866. They were part of a chronological account of what he called a Military History of Jolo. It is an apt introductory quote reflecting both the key topoi and muddled chronologies of the history of piracy in the Spanish Philippines.

The main goal of this chapter is to highlight the discursive power of piracy and coastal raids in Spanish colonial reports produced in the Philippines between 1570 and 1800, with the key focus on roughly the first hundred years. The chapter focuses on the margins of the South China Sea or the waters and coasts of what is nowadays referred to as the Philippine, Sulu, and Indonesian seas. Discourses of external threat played an important role in both establishing sovereignty and in creating a sense of common political interest among different subordinate groups. For maritime Southeast Asia, non-European understandings of maritime violence and the relationship between those who talked and wrote about it and those who were accused of committing it are essential yet remain understudied. Approaching the theme through the lens of concurrent concepts of piracy can contribute to nuance long-held misconceptions of either religiously motivated raiding or spontaneous acts by opportunist seafarers.

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Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. p. 199-223
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Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800
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History
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Humanities, History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-108951DOI: 10.1017/9789048544950.009ISBN: 9789463729215 (print)ISBN: 9789048544950 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-108951DiVA, id: diva2:1626208
Available from: 2022-01-10 Created: 2022-01-10 Last updated: 2022-02-22Bibliographically approved

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