Autore: Padron Ricardo Padron

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 …

The Spanish Pacific designates the space Spain colonized or aspired to rule in Asia between 1521–with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan–and 1815–the end of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route. …

The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world …