The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources

The Spanish Pacific designates the space Spain colonized or aspired to rule in Asia between 1521--with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan--and 1815--the end of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route. It encompasses what we identify today as the Philippines and the Marianas, but also China, Japan, an...

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Other Authors: Lee, Christina 1967- (Editor), Padrón, Ricardo 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2020]
Series:Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
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Summary:The Spanish Pacific designates the space Spain colonized or aspired to rule in Asia between 1521--with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan--and 1815--the end of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route. It encompasses what we identify today as the Philippines and the Marianas, but also China, Japan, and other parts of Asia that in the Spanish imagination were extensions of its Latin American colonies. This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific between European, Spanish Americans, and Asians while highlighting the role of natives, mestizos, and women. A-first-of-its-kind, each of the documents in this collection was selected, translated into English, and edited by a different scholar in the field of early modern Spanish Pacific studies, who also provided commentary and bibliography
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (246 pages)
ISBN:9789048552276

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