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This highly recommended book clarifies the history of seemingly naïve but at times politically useful sets of flawed assumptions.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a salutary book. . . . it is immensely valuable in making us see how sixteenth-century Spaniards conceptually framed the Americas, the Pacific and beyond; it literally takes us into another world.\" * The Globe: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"Historian Ricardo Padrón’s \u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West \u003c\/i\u003eattempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. . . . The book is a valuable contribution not only because of its rigorous and intelligent interpretations, but also because it invites us to think about two major issues. First, it shows that territories such as the Americas were not 'invented' once and for all but were revised and reinvented over time and from different places and communities. Second, the book reminds us that we must decenter our gaze from the battles of conquest and pay attention instead to the voyages and ways of understanding vast spaces such as the oceans that were key in politically configuring our modern experience of the globe.\" * Terrae Incognitae *\u003cbr\u003e\"In The Indies of the Setting Sun, Ricardo Padrón explores the spatial imaginaries of elite Spaniards in the period bookended by Balboa’s “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 in present- day Panama and the 1606 Spanish conquest of the Moluccas. \" * Early American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"With this work, Padrón demonstrates that the Pacific has been a fundamental issue in the invention of America, a process that, as he firmly asserts, 'has been repeatedly revised and reinvented over the course of the years, and has meant different things at different times in different discursive communities.' Padrón encourages readers to view the geopolitical imagination of Habsburg Spain in a different light and to rethink the possibilities offered by new approaches to consider the Pacific not as marginal, but as a central location of the Spanish empire.\" * Bulletin of the Comediantes *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and thoughtful study of the ‘invention’ and subsequent reinventions of the Pacific Ocean as part of the Spanish empire. Padrón brings to this project the same lucid, elegant prose and methodology that characterized his earlier monograph, and again he provides an argument supported by a careful study of sources employing the best historical approaches, closely contextualized reading, and an expansive definition of cartography. This is a much needed intervention, highlighting the importance of Spanish Asia in the history of Spanish imperial expansion.\" -- María M. Portuondo, author of The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e examines the way that Spanish knowledge about the South Sea—now known as the Pacific Ocean—was developed. Challenging the historical idea that Magellan's circumnavigation had established Europeans' understanding of the Americas as divided from Asia by the vast Pacific, Padrón reveals an 'alternative European cartography' that persisted across the sixteenth century. In this odd parallel universe, America was merely the forecourt to Asia, and the South Sea was a small basin within the larger Indies, then Spain's overseas empire. This is the first book I've ever read that colors the larger 'Indies' so vividly.\" -- Barbara Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City\u003cbr\u003e\"The author’s aim. . . is ambitious but the reader will not be disappointed. Padrón, in fact, leads his audience on a real journey through time, dismantling many commonplaces and prejudices about the modern perception of the way the world has been thought of and represented on maps at the dawn of modernity. The author breaks the patterns in the way we think about historical cartography between rigid categories of ‘right and wrong’, ‘precise and approximate’. Instead, Padrón highlights a complex historical process in which different cultural and political theories competed with each other in a dialectic that shaped our way of understanding geography. . . . Ricardo Padrón’s book: \u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e should be welcomed as a useful and much needed book. . . . I believe that today, in an era of redefinition of the balance between global powers with enormous interests in the Pacific area, this book is of great usefulness and relevance.\" * Rutter Project *\u003cbr\u003e\"A nuanced reading of Spanish cartographic literature about the Pacific region in the sixteenth century. . . . 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Her feminist perspective frequently offers considerable food for thought.' - 'Five must-read books about Artemisia Gentileschi', The Art Newspaper; 'Garrard's strategy of situating Gentileschi's paintings within the contemporary writing and patronage of women avoids the shallows, contextualising the paintings within a broad and lively field of female authorship, creativity and crucially, feminism avant-la-lettre. This does not render the emotion in Gentileschi's paintings insubstantial, but rather rebalances it against a feminist intellectual ballast, recuperating this extraordinary artist's richness and range. It reframes Gentileschi's work as a deliberate intervention in public debate.' - Women's Studies Group; 'an important study that furthers our understanding of the Italian Baroque painter . . . 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Banking and Finance\u003cbr\u003eBanking\u003cbr\u003eDeposits and Loans\u003cbr\u003eInternational Transfer and Exchange\u003cbr\u003eThe Bill of Exchange as Credit Instrument\u003cbr\u003eThe International Exchange Market\u003cbr\u003eGovernment Finance\u003cbr\u003eLoans to Rulers\u003cbr\u003eRisks\u003cbr\u003eThe Papacy\u003cbr\u003eCompetition and Innovation in the Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Urban Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Textile Industries\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Performance\u003cbr\u003eThe Wool Industry\u003cbr\u003eThe Silk Industry\u003cbr\u003eLinen Drapers\u003cbr\u003eBusiness Organization\u003cbr\u003eThe Firm\u003cbr\u003eOperations beyond the Firm\u003cbr\u003eProduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Shop\u003cbr\u003eThe Work Force\u003cbr\u003eRecapitulation: Wool, Silk, and the Economy\u003cbr\u003e5. Artisans, Shop keepers, Workers\u003cbr\u003eThe Work Force\u003cbr\u003eGuilds\u003cbr\u003eArtisans\u003cbr\u003eWorks on the Margins of the Market\u003cbr\u003ePerformance of the Artisan Sector\u003cbr\u003eDemand-Driven Growth\u003cbr\u003eParameters of the Local Market\u003cbr\u003e6. Banking and Credit\u003cbr\u003eBanking Institutions through the Fifteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eHistoriographical Problems\u003cbr\u003eLocal Banks\u003cbr\u003ePawnbrokers\u003cbr\u003eWelfare Institutions\u003cbr\u003eBanks and the Government\u003cbr\u003eLack of a Banking System\u003cbr\u003ePerformance of the Banking Sector\u003cbr\u003ePractices\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Functions\u003cbr\u003eBankruptcies\u003cbr\u003eBanking outside of Banks\u003cbr\u003eOffsetting\u003cbr\u003eThe Private Credit Market\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions in the Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eA Public Savings- and- Loan Bank\u003cbr\u003eA Central Clearance Bank?\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e7. 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