The Spanish lake /

The Spanish lake /

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Author / Creator:	Spate, O. H. K. (Oskar Hermann Khristian), 1911-2000.
Imprint:	Canberra : ANU E Press, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The Pacific since Magellan ; v. 1 Spate, O. H. K. (Oskar Hermann Khristian), 1911-2000. Pacific since Magellan ; v. 1.
Subject:	Explorers -- Spain. Civilization -- European influences. Discoveries in geography. Economic history. Explorers. Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration. Latin America -- Economic conditions -- History. Latin America -- Civilization -- European influences. Pacific Area -- History. Latin America. Pacific Area. Spain. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12830437

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ISBN:	1920942173 9781920942175 1920942165 9781920942168
Notes:	Includes index. Includes notes, bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"'Strictly speaking, there was no such thing as "the Pacific" until in 1520-1 Fernao de Magalhãis, better known as Magellan, traversed the huge expanse of waters, which then received its name.' With these opening words, Oskar Spate launches his account of the process by which the greatest blank on the map became a focus of global relations. The Spanish Lake describes the essentially European and American achievement of turning this emptiness into a nexus of economic and military power. This work is a history of the Pacific, the ocean that became a theatre of power and conflict shaped by the politics of Europe and the economic background of Spanish America. There could only be a concept of 'the Pacific' once the limits and lineaments of the ocean were set and this was undeniably the work of Europeans. Fifty years after the Conquista, Nueva España and Peru were the bases from which the ocean was turned into virtually a Spanish lake."--Publisher's description
Other form:	Print version: pate, O.H.K. (Oskar Hermann Khristian), 1911- Pacific since Magellan. New ed. Canberra : Australian National University E Press, 2004- 1920942173
Standard no.:	10.26530/OAPEN_459544 459544

Table of Contents:

The World without the Pacific
Balboa, Magellan, and The Moluccas
Spain: Entry and Dominion
Magellan's Successors: Loaysa to Urdaneta
Eastern Shores and Southern Lands
Asian Empires, Christian Trades
The Silver Tide
Seville and the Pacific
The First Irruption: Francis Drake
Riposte and Reprise.