Ricardo Padrón – America, the Pacific, and Asia in the Imperial Imagination
In episode 3 of ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘, Professor Ricardo Padrón discusses Spanish attempts to represent and conquer the Pacific as part of the greater Spanish imperial imagination in the sixteenth century with series host Dr Edward Collins.
!['Maris Pacifici' by Abraham Ortelius [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](/assets/Ortelius-Maris-Pacifici_960b.jpg)