The Spanish Lake

The Spanish Lake
ISBN-10
1920942165
ISBN-13
9781920942168
Category
Discoveries in geography
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2004-11-01
Publisher
ANU E Press
Author
Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate

Description

This work is a history of the Pacific, the ocean that became a theatre of power and conflict shaped by the politics of Europe and the economic background of Spanish America. There could only be a concept of &�the Pacific once the limits and lineaments of the ocean were set and this was undeniably the work of Europeans. Fifty years after the Conquista, Nueva Espaą and Peru were the bases from which the ocean was turned into virtually a Spanish lake.

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