The Spanish LakeANU E Press, 01/11/2004 - 372 páginas "'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. |
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Acapulco America Asia Atlantic Australia Blair & Robertson Borah Boxer C. R. Boxer California Callao Cape Cartography Cavendish Chaunu Chile China Chinese coast Colonial command Conquista conquistadores Cortes course Cruz daimyo Discovery Dutch early east economic encomienda English Europe European expedition Exploration favour fleet Francis Drake Francisco Galleon geographical gold Habsburgs Hakluyt Hawkins Hideyoshi Hist History HS 2nd Huancavelica Inca Indians Indies islands Isthmus Jack-Hinton Japan Japanese Jesuits Juan King land later Lima Lisbon London Macao Magellan Malacca Manila Manila Galleon Mendaña merchants Mexico Moluccas navigation Ocean official Pacific Panama passage Pedro perhaps Peru Peruvian Philippines pilots Plata Plate port Portugal Portuguese Potosi probably Quiros reached route royal sailed Santa Sarmiento seems sent Seville ships silver sixteenth century South Sea Southern Voyages Spain Spaniards Spanish Empire Spice Islands spices Straits Tidore took Torres trade Urdaneta Viceroy Wagner York
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Página 247 - The uttermost cape or hedland of all these Hands stands neere in 56 deg., without which there is no maine nor Hand to be scene to the Southwards, but that the Atlanticke Ocean and the South Sea, meete in a most large and free scope.
Página 264 - Indeed, the booty brought back by Drake in the Golden Hind may fairly be considered the fountain and origin of British Foreign Investment. Elizabeth paid off out of the proceeds the whole of her foreign debt and invested a part of the balance (about...
Página 264 - ... the Golden Hind may fairly be considered the fountain and origin of British Foreign Investment. Elizabeth paid off out of the proceeds the whole of her foreign debt and invested a part of the balance (about £42,000) in the Levant Company; largely out of the profits of the Levant Company there was formed the East India Company, the profits of which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the main foundation of England's foreign connections; and so on.
Página 110 - Captain Quiros and Mr William Lane, Sailing some highway shunned by trading traffic Where in the world's skull like a moonlit brain Flashing and crinkling rolls the vast Pacific, Approached each other zigzag, in confusion, Lane from the west, the Spaniard from the east, Their flickering canvas breaking the horizon That shuts the dead off in a wall of mist. "Three hundred years since I set out from Lima And off Espiritu Santo lay down and wept Because no faith in men, no truth in islands And still...
Página 6 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea!
Página 345 - Man-of-war as we were, desirous to be relieved by us. For at our first meeting, the French Captain cast abroad his hands, and prayed our Captain to help him to some water, for that he had nothing but wine and cider aboard him, which had brought his men into great sickness. He had sought us ever since he first heard of our being upon the coast, about this five weeks.
Página 112 - They brought us some of the skins of bears, lions, and deer. They use bows and arrows and have their form of government. They are naked. They would have much pleasure in seeing us make a No. 30. Monterey to Pillar Point settlement in their country.170 Those who come from China in need of relief could very well resort to this port.
Página 266 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página 151 - During this last year some of our Portuguese made a voyage to China. They were not permitted to land, for they say it is against their custom to let foreigners enter their dwellings. But they sold their goods at a great gain, and they say there is as great profit in taking spices to China as in taking them to Portugal, for it is a cold country and they make great use of them.
Página 58 - Comme un vol de gerfauts hors du charnier natal, Fatigues de porter leurs miseres hautaines, De Palos de Moguer, routiers et capitaines Partaient, ivres d'un reve heVoique et brutal.
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