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- He also made the colony independent by freeing it from the control of New Spain and other Pacific Islands including the Philippines. Hoping to free the Philippines from Mexican and Chinese trade, Basco established reforms including incentivizing the production of cotton, spices, sugarcane, and mining, as well as rewarding scientific reforms.
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Governor General Johannes van den Bosch established the Dutch system of compulsory cultivation of crops. He wanted export crops for the overseas market, while José de Galvez and Governor José Basco y Vargas were concerned only with the domestic market.
- Karl J Pelzer
- 1974
Feb 26, 2019 · When Jose Basco was appointed to become the governor-general of the Philippines in 1778, he sought to reverse the situation and make the Philippines financially self-sufficient. He went on to formulate a plan to develop the natural resources of the Philippines.
Hoping to free the Philippines from Mexican and Chinese trade, Basco established reforms including incentivizing the production of cotton, spices, sugarcane, and mining, as well as rewarding scientific reforms.
In this influential study Phelan analyzes the transformations of the Philippine society under Spanish colonization, specifically changes in the spheres of labor, agricul-ture, ecology, political organization, culture, and religion.
Mar 20, 2010 · Those interventions would come in the form of the innovative Basque Governor-General Jose Basco y Vargas, the Real Compania de Filipinas (Royal Company of the Philippines) and the few but...
- Alejandro R. Roces
The tobacco monopoly was established by Governor Jose Basco y Vargas by decree in 1781, was implemented in 1783 and was the main source of fiscal revenue for Spain in the Philippines. There was also a “tentative use of bills of exchange in transferring funds through Canton” (p. 89).
Mar 1, 2014 · Today, on March 1, 1872 (Philippines): Spanish Governor-General José Basco y Vargas, a naval officer of the Spanish navy and served as the 53rd governor of the Philippines under the Spanish Empire, formally organized the Tobacco Monopoly in the Philippines.
