Exploring Iberian Counterpoints in the Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Pacific

ISBN-13: 9781032164120 / Angielski

Rainer F. Buschmann; David Manzano Cosano

Opis

Through a number of case studies, this volume examines changing Iberian dynamics in the Pacific, bridging the gaps between English and Spanish speaking scholarship to highlight understudied actors and debates.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Spanish Empire in Oceania: From the “Spanish Puddle” to the “Philippine Wall"  2. Uncovering an Iberian Pacific through Diplomatic Dispute in the Eighteenth Century  3. Lo(o)sing the Pacific: Tahitian Interventions in Archival and Published Accounts of Spanish Voyages  4. Spanish Cultural Clashes with the Indigenous Inhabitants of Colonial Micronesia: Building and Contesting Metropolitan Stereotypes  5. Revaluating the Dual Integration of the Northern Mariana Islands

O autorze

Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 (2014) and co-author of Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898 (2013).

 

David Manzano Cosano is a research fellow at University of Cádiz, Spain. He holds two PhDs (Contemporary History / Law and Political Sciences). He held different fellowships in Australia, the Philippines, Japan and Guam.  He has published prominent works on Spain in Oceania.