"This book argues that anti-piracy politics were the ideological glue that held Spain's Asian empire together and ensured its surprising resilience and longevity. Flannery reveals that Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers allied behind Spain's colonial officials and militant missionaries to wage wars against sea robbers, who had long terrorized them prior to Spanish arrival"--

Maritime Violence and Imperial Formation: An Introduction
Chapter 1. Muslim Pirates and Holy War in Philippine Borderlands
Chapter 2. Sea-Robbers and Sangleyes in the Catholic Republic of Manila
Chapter 3. The Pirates from Madras: The British Invasion and Occupation of Manila
Chapter 4. The Loyalist Army and the Great War
Chapter 5. Empire by Expulsion: The Forced Repatriation of Chinese Migrants from the Philippines
Epilogue: Piracy and Empire in the Age of Revolutions and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Kristie Patricia Flannery is a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University.