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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: PadrĂ³n, Ricardo, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Subjects:
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.