The Indies of the setting sun : how early modern Spain mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West /
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 connec...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The map behind the curtain
- South Sea dreams
- Pacific nightmares
- Shipwrecked ambitions
- Pacific conquests
- The location of China
- The kingdom of the setting sun
- The anxieties of a paper empire
- Conclusion.