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Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long occurrence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on an evergrowing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering reserve investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Making use of an impressive selection of unpublished archival materials on Spain's two most significant island belongings (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign insurance plan in the South Sea, the reserve brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many standard interpretations. By analyzing Castile's cultural history in the Pacific through the zoom lens of archipelagic Hispanization, the writers bring a new comparative methodology for an important field of research. The reserve opens with a macrohistorical perspective of the conceptual and literal Spanish Lake. The chapters that follow explore both Iberian perspective of the Pacific and indigenous counternarratives; graph the history of the Chinese language mestizo regiment that emerged after Britain's job of Manila in 1762-1764; and examine how Chamorros responded to waves of newcomers making their way to Guam from European countries, the Americas, and Asia. An epilogue analyzes the decline of Spanish affect against a backdrop of Western european and American imperial ambitions and shows on the legacies of archipelagic Hispanization into the 21st century. Specialists and students of Pacific studies, world record, the Spanish colonial period, maritime history, early on modern European countries, and Asian studies will welcome Navigating the Spanish Lake as a persuasive reorientation of the Pacific in both Iberian and world record. "The originality of this book is based on the way it recenters both record and geography from European countries to the Americas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific." (From the foreword by John R. Gillis, Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University)
