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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain's Asian empire, Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers in the Southeast Asian archipelago to wage war against waves of pirates, and even the British fleet that attacked at the height of the Seven Years' War. This revisionist study complicates the assumption that empire was imposed on Filipinos with brute force alone. Rather, anti-piracy also shaped the politics of belonging in the colonial Philippines. Real and imagined pirate threats especially influenced the fate and fortunes of Chinese migrants in the islands. They triggered genocidal massacres of the Chinese at some junctures, and at others facilitated Chinese integration into the Catholic nation as loyal vassals. Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World demonstrates that piracy is key to explaining the surprising longevity of Spain's Asian empire, which survived the Age of Revolutions and endured almost to the end of the nineteenth century. It offers important new insight into piracy's impact on the trajectory of globalization and European imperial expansion in maritime Asia.

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Kristie Patricia Flannery is a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Brigid Lohrey is an experienced actress and audiobook narrator with over sixteen years' experience. She began narrating with the RNIB many years ago. Since then she has narrated for many different publishing houses and has a large collection of audiobooks on Audible. Genres include: wholesome romance, contemporary fiction, historical romance, chick lit, erotic romance, mystery/thriller, nonfiction, and biography. Her accent is a warm but subtle variation of her native Australian, but having trained and worked in the UK for over twenty years, she is also often booked for projects that require an authentic British RP. Brigid won an Outstanding Achievement Award for narration at the MLC Awards in 2020.

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