Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), written in Paris in 1700, provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the Chamorro people – the period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars.

Using research conducted in several national and international archives in Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center in Guam, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa produced this English translation of the first Spanish edition (Madrid, 2013) of the Histoire des isles Marianes (Paris, 1700), by Charles Le Gobien. This present edition stems from a manuscript preserved in the Arxiu de la Companyia de Jesus a Catalunya, in Barcelona, attributed to Father Luis de Morales, who had been part of the Jesuit mission to the Marianas. Thus, this text calls into question the authorship of Father Le Gobien. This book opens with a long introduction analyzing the context of production of the Histoire, together with an annotated edition of the book over ten chapters.

• Author(s): Luis de Morales, S.J. & Charles Le Gobien, S.J.
• Editor: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
• Publisher: University of Guam Press (2016)
• Imprint: MARC Publications
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935198-09-3
• Hardcover: 282 pages
• Price: $20

Editor’s Bio: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa (Barcelona, 1968) received his Ph.D. in History from SUNY at Stony Brook, USA (2001). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Illes i Imperis and is currently doing research at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities. He is a member of the research group Imperis, Metròpolis i Societats Extraeuropees (GRIMSE) and Ethnographies, Cultural Encounters and Religious Missions in the Iberian World (ECERM) at the same University, as well as an associate member of the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) at the University of Guam. He specializes in colonial Latin American history, the ecclesiastical history of Peru and the Philippines, historical anthropology, and chronicles of the Indies. Some of his recent publications include Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (London & New York: Routledge, 2016) and Elogio a la antropología histórica: enfoques, métodos y aplicaciones al estudio del poder y el colonialismo (Zaragoza: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza & UOC, 2016).

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