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"Although the tendency to depict America as a part of Asia is most often associated with the print cartography of Renaissance humanists living and working north of the Pyrenees, it was actually the Spanish-speaking world that was most committed to mapping the New World in terms of transpacific connectivity: that is, the notion that North America was actually an extension of East Asia, and that the South Sea (today's Pacific Ocean) was actually much narrower than it in fact is. Columbus's dream of reaching the East by sailing west did not fade as America began to take form in the European imagination. On the contrary, it nourished continued efforts to press westward from New Spain, culminating in the establishment of a Spanish colony in the Philippine Islands during the 1560s, and speculation about continued conquest-both temporal and spiritual-on the continent of Asia. Throughout this westward push, the space between Mexico and Malacca was most often theorized not as America or the New World, but quite simply as las Indias, an eminently flexible concept that served to keep Spain's transpacific ambitions alive, even as various empirical realities regarding the true geography of the vast Pacific Basin slowly came into sharper focus over the century. These and other theories kept the New World connected to Asia in a variety of ways, subtending Spain's dreams, ultimately failed, of a transpacific empire. Padrón here outlines the contours of a largely forgotten geopolitical imaginary whose existence and salience has only become visible from the perspective afforded by the twenty-first century, the Pacific Century"--

Cartography --- History --- Pacific Area --- Spain --- Discovery and exploration. --- Maps --- History. --- In literature. --- Civilization --- Relations

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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.

Philippines --- Spain --- Commonwealth of the Philippines --- Feilübin --- Filipinas --- Filippine --- Filippiny --- Firipin --- Philippine Islands --- Pilipinas --- Pʻillipʻin --- Republic of the Philippines --- Republika ng Pilipinas --- RP --- Филиппины --- フィリピン --- فلبين --- Filibbīn --- 菲律宾 --- Philippinen --- History --- Colonies. --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Spanish Pacific, early modern, Spanish Empire, Spanish Golden Age. --- 1521-1812

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Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another. Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from material objects to metaphysical notions. Illuminating difference as much as complementarity, departure as much as continuity, the book captures a dynamic universe of meanings in the various midst of its own re-creations. The Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque joins leading work in a number of intersecting fields and will fire new research—it is the indispensible starting point for all serious scholars of the early modern Spanish world.

Civilization, Baroque. --- Civilization, Hispanic. --- America --- Spain --- Civilization. --- Civilization