Ricardo Padrón
Biographic Data
| ID | 369156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricardo Padrón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Padrón |
| SIGNATURE | PADRÓN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1038-5528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The transpacific travels of Mexican obsidian in the sixteenth century
El códice Boxer
Hernando Colón's New World of Books
Straits
Against contemporary stereotypes that associate the name Ferdinand Magellan with success in a variety of endeavors, Fernández-Armesto insists that the Magellan expedition was an utter failure, doomed from the start and entirely unprofitable. To make his case, he toggles between two forms of historical writing that might seem incompatible. On the one hand, he tells gripping stories and paints vivid pictures of, for instance, the Strait of Magellan…
Empirical Empire
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The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815
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 se…
América y el espacio transmagallánico, siglo XVI
This essay examines various moments in the history of the sixteenth-century representation of the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea that illustrate some of the ways that the early modern Spanish geopolitical imagination resisted the ongoing invention of America as a continent separate from Asia. In this series of visions of what we can call transmagellanic space, the Spanish geopolitical imagination struggles against the prevailing tendency to…
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815
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 se…
Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815
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 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 re…
The Indies of the Setting Sun
Hybrid Maps
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
The Worldmakers
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(Un)Inventing America
In this article, I analyze the so-called ‘discovery of the Pacific’ and its implications for Spanish understanding of global geography, in two of the most important early histories of the early encounter with the New World: the works of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francisco López de Gómara. Their general histories of the Indies tackle the Pacific in their accounts of the various expeditions that Spain sent to the Moluccas and Philippines betw…
Mapping Plus Ultra
Ciancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford
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A Sea of Denial
“A Sea of Denial” examines the cartographic invention of the Pacific Rim by the Spanish imperial imagination during the long sixteenth century. Guided by the desire to include as much as possible within the line of demarcation established by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and the negotiation of its antimeridian in the 1520s, Castilian mapmakers designed maps of the world and of the Hispanic Indies that fashioned the lands around the Pacific Oce…
The Empire of the Idol
The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of the Monarchy
Research Article| September 01 2006 The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of the Monarchy: Empire, Utopia, and the Faith in Lope's Triunfo de la fee en los reynos de Japón Ricardo Padrón Ricardo Padrón Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (3): 517–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2006-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Charting Empire, Charting Difference
Exile and Empire
O begins the Cancion en alabanca de la Divina Majestad, por la victoria del Senor Don Juan (1572), a poem which more than any other of his compositions has earned for Fernando de a reputation as the singer of Spanish imperialism during the Golden Age. The poem's unmistakable Biblical overtones identify Spain and the Holy League as a new Chosen People, who at Lepanto are delivered from the wrath of a latter-day Pharaoh. These Chosen People, furthe…
Mapping Plus Ultra
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY in the early modern period has been tied in particular ways to the emergence of both imperialism and modernity. At the center of this argument lie the gridded scale maps that Europeans learned to make in the wake of their rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography. These new maps supported the emergence of abstract space as a centerpiece of a new spatiality - a spatiality that in turn supported, in both theory and practice, the…
A Sea of Denial
“A Sea of Denial” examines the cartographic invention of the Pacific Rim by the Spanish imperial imagination during the long sixteenth century. Guided by the desire to include as much as possible within the line of demarcation established by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and the negotiation of its antimeridian in the 1520s, Castilian mapmakers designed maps of the world and of the Hispanic Indies that fashioned the lands around the Pacific Oce…
Mapping Plus Ultra
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY in the early modern period has been tied in particular ways to the emergence of both imperialism and modernity. At the center of this argument lie the gridded scale maps that Europeans learned to make in the wake of their rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography. These new maps supported the emergence of abstract space as a centerpiece of a new spatiality - a spatiality that in turn supported, in both theory and practice, the…
Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815
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 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 re…
Charting Empire, Charting Difference
Charting Empire, Charting Difference
Exile and Empire
O begins the Cancion en alabanca de la Divina Majestad, por la victoria del Senor Don Juan (1572), a poem which more than any other of his compositions has earned for Fernando de a reputation as the singer of Spanish imperialism during the Golden Age. The poem's unmistakable Biblical overtones identify Spain and the Holy League as a new Chosen People, who at Lepanto are delivered from the wrath of a latter-day Pharaoh. These Chosen People, furthe…
Mapping Plus Ultra
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY in the early modern period has been tied in particular ways to the emergence of both imperialism and modernity. At the center of this argument lie the gridded scale maps that Europeans learned to make in the wake of their rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography. These new maps supported the emergence of abstract space as a centerpiece of a new spatiality - a spatiality that in turn supported, in both theory and practice, the…
The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of the Monarchy
Research Article| September 01 2006 The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of the Monarchy: Empire, Utopia, and the Faith in Lope's Triunfo de la fee en los reynos de Japón Ricardo Padrón Ricardo Padrón Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (3): 517–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2006-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
The Empire of the Idol
A Sea of Denial
“A Sea of Denial” examines the cartographic invention of the Pacific Rim by the Spanish imperial imagination during the long sixteenth century. Guided by the desire to include as much as possible within the line of demarcation established by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and the negotiation of its antimeridian in the 1520s, Castilian mapmakers designed maps of the world and of the Hispanic Indies that fashioned the lands around the Pacific Oce…
Ciancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mapping Plus Ultra
(Un)Inventing America
In this article, I analyze the so-called ‘discovery of the Pacific’ and its implications for Spanish understanding of global geography, in two of the most important early histories of the early encounter with the New World: the works of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francisco López de Gómara. Their general histories of the Indies tackle the Pacific in their accounts of the various expeditions that Spain sent to the Moluccas and Philippines betw…
Hybrid Maps
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
The Worldmakers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Indies of the Setting Sun
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815
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 se…
América y el espacio transmagallánico, siglo XVI
This essay examines various moments in the history of the sixteenth-century representation of the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea that illustrate some of the ways that the early modern Spanish geopolitical imagination resisted the ongoing invention of America as a continent separate from Asia. In this series of visions of what we can call transmagellanic space, the Spanish geopolitical imagination struggles against the prevailing tendency to…
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815
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 se…
Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815
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 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 re…
Empirical Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
El códice Boxer
Hernando Colón's New World of Books
Straits
Against contemporary stereotypes that associate the name Ferdinand Magellan with success in a variety of endeavors, Fernández-Armesto insists that the Magellan expedition was an utter failure, doomed from the start and entirely unprofitable. To make his case, he toggles between two forms of historical writing that might seem incompatible. On the one hand, he tells gripping stories and paints vivid pictures of, for instance, the Strait of Magellan…
The transpacific travels of Mexican obsidian in the sixteenth century
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