The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez write by Fabio López Lázaro. This book was released on 2011-07-01. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio López Lázaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ramírez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. López Lázaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650–1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) write by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora. This book was released on 2018-12-20. Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, José F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez, who was shipwrecked on Herradura Point in the Coast of Yucatán on Sunday September 18, 1689. This first bilingual edition of the Infortunios/Misfortunes reports the findings of almost two decades of sustained research in pursuit, on land and by sea, of a most elusive historical character who was, as we now can attest with all degree of certainty, the first American known to have circumnavigated the globe. Captured by pirates, shipwrecked, and eventually rescued and sent on his way, this is one man’s story of his unanticipated voyage around the Early Modern world. With transcription, translation, notes, maps, images, and critical essay by Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, this Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez
Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez write by Carlos de Sigüenza Y Góngora. This book was released on 2022-10-27. Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815 write by Christina H. Lee. This book was released on 2020. The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. It encompasses what we identify today as the Philippines and the Marianas, but also Spanish America, China, Japan, and other parts of Asia that in the Spanish imagination were extensions of its Latin American colonies. This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific among Europeans, Spanish Americans, and Asians while highlighting the role of natives, mestizos, and women. A-first-of-its-kind, each of the documents in this collection was selected, translated into English, and edited by a different scholar in the field of early modern Spanish Pacific studies, who also provided commentary and bibliography.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) write by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora. This book was released on 2018-12-20. Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
