Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire

Not Just the Tudors

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Pirates weren’t just a menace on the high seas - they were a direct threat to Spain’s empire-building ambitions in the Pacific. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery to hear the untold story of how Spanish officials, Catholic missionaries, Indigenous Filipinos, and Chinese migrants joined forces to battle Chinese and Muslim pirates, as well as the British Navy during the Seven Years’ War. This is a fascinating look at the darker side of globalisation and European imperialism.

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb.
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0:15.2	including my own, on Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Brilliant Rivals.
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0:27.6	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,
0:33.3	the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,
0:37.7	from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise.
0:43.1	Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:47.6	Not in other words just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.
1:04.6	Music but most definitely also the Tudors. First conquered in the mid-16th century,
1:07.3	the islands of the Philippines were the centre of the so-called Spanish East Indies,
1:12.3	a vital and valuable maritime trade hub for the transport of spices and silk to Europe.
1:18.6	Against threats from Morrow Raiders and the borderlands to Chinese pirate fleets and the British
1:23.8	invasion of Manila, Spanish rule found its way to stability, even legitimacy,
1:29.6	through, surprisingly enough, its attitudes and reaction to piracy.
1:35.2	Joining me today to discuss her work on the global Spanish Empire and the vital recovery of
1:40.6	indigenous history in the Pacific is Christy Patricia Flannery, a historian and
1:46.0	research fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic
1:51.2	University in Melbourne.
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