Dennis O Flynn: 2 books
Studies in Pacific History
Economics, Politics, and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world history. This question is taken up in the introductory chapter of this volume, which sets out four periods of modern Pacific history: a silver period, 1570s-1750;...
European Entry into the Pacific
Spain and the Acapulco-Manila Galleons
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
World history conventionally ignores or underestimates the importance of Manila, the Manila galleons, and the Philippines as key stages in the development of trans-Pacific contact and of the world economy. Essays in this volume discuss Philippine-Asian exchanges prior to the entry of Europeans, and...