1st Edition
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815 A Reader of Primary Sources
Biography
Christina Hyo-Jung Lee is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her latest book, Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule (Oxford University Press, 2021) is the first scholarly study to focus on the dynamic life of saints and their devotees in the Spanish Philippines, from the sixteenth through the early part of the eighteenth century. Ricardo Padrón is Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia who studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography. His recently published monograph, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (University of Chicago Press, 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of “the Indies.”
Selected as one of the Best Historical Materials from 2020-21 by the Reference and User Services Association, an affiliate of the American Library Association!, Each selection ends with a bibliography pertinent to the issues illuminated by the primary source, which will be particularly useful for graduate students, and a brief biography of the selection's editor. The volume as a whole provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of peoples who interacted, mostly in the Philippines, but also within and across the vast space of the Pacific Ocean.- Carla Rahn Phillips, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 98:1
