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The Indies of the Setting Sun - How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Paperback)
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The Indies of the Setting Sun - How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Paperback)
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Padron reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World
as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward
expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a
distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as
new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geographic
vision of the Americas was not shared by all Europeans. While some
imperialists imagined North and Central America as undiscovered
land, the Spanish pushed to define the New World as part of a
larger and eminently flexible geography that they called las
Indias, and that by right, belonged to the Crown of Castile and
Leon. Las Indias included all of the New World as well as East and
Southeast Asia, although Spain's understanding of the relationship
between the two areas changed as the realities of the Pacific Rim
came into sharper focus. At first, the Spanish insisted that North
and Central America were an extension of the continent of Asia.
Eventually, they came to understand East and Southeast Asia as a
transpacific extension of their empire in America called las Indias
del poniente, or the Indies of the Setting Sun. The Indies of the
Setting Sun charts the Spanish vision of a transpacific imperial
expanse, beginning with Balboa's discovery of the South Sea and
ending almost a hundred years later with Spain's final push for
control of the Pacific. Padron traces a series of attempts-both
cartographic and discursive-to map the space from Mexico to
Malacca, revealing the geopolitical imaginations at play in the
quest for control of the New World and Asia.
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