Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898

About the Authors, Production Notes, Back Cover

About the Authors Rainer F. Buschmann is professor of history at California State University– Channel Islands. His interest in anthropology awoke a passion for oceanic settings that took him first to the University of Hawai‘i, where he obtained an MA in anthropology and a PhD in history, and later to the California Channel Islands. He has also taught at Hawai‘i Pacific University and Purdue University. He is the author of Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935 (2009) and Oceans in World History (2007). Edward R. Slack Jr. earned a PhD in history from the University of Hawai‘i and is now professor of history at Eastern Washington University. His current scholarship focuses on cultural exchanges between China, the Philippines, and New Spain (colonial Mexico) from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. He is the author of Opium, State, and Society, and numerous articles. His teaching and research interests include ancient to modern China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and world history. James B. Tueller received a PhD in history from Columbia University and is presently professor of history at Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i. He has taught at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York and BYU in Provo, Utah. He is the author of GoodandFaithfulChristians:Moriscos and Catholicism in Early Modern Spain (2002), and he currently researches and writes on the Spanish Empire in the Pacific Ocean. Production Notes for BUSCHMANN | Navigating the Spanish Lake Jacket design by Julie Matsuo-Chun Design and Composition by Publishers’ Design and Production Services, Inc., with display in ITC Tiepolo and text type in Adobe Caslon Pro Printing and binding by Sheridan Books, Inc. Printed on 55 lb. House White Hi-Bulk D37, 360 ppi. world history University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-1888 “The originality of this book lies in the way it recenters both history and geography from Europe to the Americas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The authors encourage us to see the early modern world as multilayered and multidirectional. We learn that European interlopers to the Pacific shared pride of place not only with Pacific Islanders, but with Chinese, Burmese, Malays, and other Asians.” — From the Foreword by John R. Gillis Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University ...