Description: Building upon a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and the sustained research on indigenous participation in Pacific histories, the authors investigate the Spanish Lake as a historical artifact that brings together both the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and the Basin (Oceania).
Brief description: Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and professor of history at California State University Channel Islands.
Review Quotes: Scholars and other readers hoping to learn more about the Spanish presence in the Pacific especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which probably is the period least familiar to most Hispanists, will find this slim volume rewarding. . . . Readers seeking to learn more about the presence and impact of the Spanish in the Pacific . . . will find a great deal of interest here.-- "Historian"