Conquest and pestilence in the early Spanish Philippines / Linda A. Newson.

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009], ©2009.

x, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-405) and index.

Introduction -- A world apart? -- The role of disease -- Colonial realities and population decline -- Interpreting the evidence -- The Visayas -- Conquest and depopulation before 1600 -- Wars and missionaries in the seventeenth-century Visayas -- Southern Luzon -- Manila and Tondo -- Southwest Luzon -- Bikol -- Pampanga and Bulacan -- Northern Luzon -- Ilocos and Pangasinan -- Cagayan -- Interior Luzon -- Conclusion -- Demographic change in the early Spanish Philippines.