The Spanish Lake
Author: Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1920942165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.