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Navigating the Spanish Lake
Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical “Spanish Lake” as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain’s two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea, the book brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many ...
Maritime History at the Crossroads
This volume seeks to critically review the contemporary state of maritime historiography, as it stands at the volume’s publication date of 1995. The volume is comprised of thirteen essays, each focused on the recent research into the maritime concerns of a particular geographical location, listed as follows: Australia; Canada; China; Denmark; Germany; Greece; Ibero-America; India; the Netherlands; the Ottoman Empire; Spain; the United States; and a final chapter concerning historians and maritime labour in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. One concern made evident by the collection is the lack of stable identity and cohesive aims within maritime history, the subject holds many conflicting definitions and concepts. The purpose of this volume is to explore the recent developments in maritime history, plus the growth of scholarly interest, to provide a ‘beacon and stimulus for future work’ and to clearly direct and define maritime historiography toward a solid position in the field of history.
RETRATO DE UN NAVÍO
El calificativo rezuma deliberada meditación, porque no es poca ventura que a tus manos llegue un libro como este sobre el navío Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza, señero protagonista de la carrera Manila-Acapulco.Veamos por qué.Ante todo, por su carácter de primicia. Hasta ahora no ha habido quien osara hurgar en el fárrago documental que escondía sus orígenes, avatares y desaparición definitiva. En segundo lugar, la presente obra constituye un acopio inverosímil de datos con su intricada urdimbre que únicamente un espíritu avizor y perito fuera capaz de desentrañar con tal maestría que lo que, de suyo, es difícil y recóndito para el profano, se torna diáfano y comprens...
Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico
This book follows Chinese porcelain through the commodity chain, from its production in China to trade with Spanish Merchants in Manila, and to its eventual adoption by colonial society in Mexico. As trade connections increased in the early modern period, porcelain became an immensely popular and global product. This study focuses on one of the most exported objects, the guan. It shows how this porcelain jar was produced, made accessible across vast distances and how designs were borrowed and transformed into new creations within different artistic cultures. While people had increased access to global markets and products, this book argues that this new connectivity could engender more local outlooks and even heightened isolation in some places. It looks beyond the guan to the broader context of transpacific trade during this period, highlighting the importance and impact of Asian commodities in Spanish America.
Distinguished Figures in Mechanical Engineering in Spain and Ibero-America
This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries. The contributions examine scientists whose work resulted in relevant technical-scientific achievements, with an impact on technology and science in the historical evolution of MMS fields, and with an influence on the development of society at large. Biographical notes describing the efforts and achievements of these persons are included as well, but a technical survey is the core of each chapter, offering a modern interpretation of their legacy.
The Mysterious Sofía
Who was the “Mysterious Sofía,” whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? In The Mysterious Sofía Stephen J. C. Andes uses the remarkable story of Sofía del Valle to tell the history of Catholicism’s global shift from north to south and the importance of women to Catholic survival and change over the course of the twentieth century. As a devout Catholic single woman, neither nun nor mother, del Valle resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, became a labor activist in a time of class conflict, founded an educational movement, toured the United States as a public lecturer, ...
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
Planos del navío Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza, de la carrera Manila-Acapulco (1733-1750) - Volumen II. Especificaciones
Como ya se anunció en la presentación del volumen primero de esta obra, se publica ahora el segundo volumen. En el se detallan las especificaciones que cubren todo el dimensionado del navío, incluida la enfermería; el escantillonado de los elementos constructivos, el acabado del navío; la mena de los cabos principales y el proceso de aparejado en tiempo real. En el primer volumen se presentaron los planos del navío Ntra. Sra. del Pilar de Zaragoza de la Carrera Manila-Acapulco, que describen las líneas del casco, sus detalles constructivos, detalles de la proa y la popa, interiores, cubiertas, armamento, mástiles y vergas y, finalmente, velas y bandera. Para facilitar la calidad de s...
Planos del Navo Nuestra Seora del Pilar de Zaragoza, de La Carrera Manila-Acapulco (1733-1750) - Volumen I. Planos
Agotada la edicin de la obra Retrato de un Navo, el Ntra. Sra. del Pilar de Zaragoza de la Carrera Manila-Acapulco de la Editorial Naval, se presenta esta publicacin en dos volmenes, para facilitar su descarga, y satisfacer, as, los deseos de muchos modelistas y aficionados a la navegacin a vela en el siglo XVIII. Con ella se desea completar las proporciones que Antonio de Gaztaeta public en 1720 y fueron la base de toda la construccin naval espaola durante el resto del siglo XVIII, retocados y mejorados por los Jorge Juan, Francisco Gautier, Jos Romero Fernndez de Landa y Julin de Retamosa. Con estos planos del Ntra. Sra. del Pilar de Zaragoza, navo de dos puentes, 50 caones de porte, 60 co...
Fiscal Policy in the European Union
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of national fiscal policies in the European Union and in the European Monetary Union. Adopting a critical perspective, the book offers a deep insight into the consequences of the current strategy of national fiscal policies on economic activity.
