出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：From a microhistory and comparative approach, the paper traces the mechanisms of political representation and local power in Philippines during the Spanish colonial rule. The indigenous political leaders —appointed for the Spanish colonial authorities for diverse political, economic and religious reasons— played a crucial role in building resistance or allegiance to the metropolitan government in the oriental dominions. These are the main lines of a study that also compares the electoral process in the Philippine colonial territories with the strategies of political control and élites dispute in the metropolitan power during the nineteenth century. But also the scrutiny of the meaning of the electoral reform of 1893 and the obstacles encountered by the colonial authorities to eradicate the vices and moral influence, by act or omission, they had promoted for decades.
