Rainer F. Buschmann is professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. Edward R. Slack Jr. is professor of history at Eastern Washington University. James B. Tueller is professor of history at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi.

Overall, the authors deserve credit for their contribution to re-centring scholarly focus on the Pacific Ocean. Attention to the complexities of the Spanish presence in the Pacific Rim and Basin provides a welcome corrective for studies that have neglected the broader dimensions of the Spanish Empire. This study is indispensable reading for those interested in Asian history, global history and the history of Spain in the Americas." - Asian Studies Review"Scholars and other readers hoping to learn more about the Spanish presence in the Pacific especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which probably is the period least familiar to most Hispanists, will find this slim volume rewarding. . . . Readers seeking to learn more about the presence and impact of the Spanish in the Pacific . . . will find a great deal of interest here." - Historian"Navigating the Spanish Lake . . . [is] at the vanguard of a contemporary challenge to the Anglo-French centrism of Pacific colonial history." - Journal of World History

Rainer F. Buschmann is professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. Edward R. Slack Jr. is professor of history at Eastern Washington University. James B. Tueller is professor of history at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi.

Overall, the authors deserve credit for their contribution to re-centring scholarly focus on the Pacific Ocean. Attention to the complexities of the Spanish presence in the Pacific Rim and Basin provides a welcome corrective for studies that have neglected the broader dimensions of the Spanish Empire. This study is indispensable reading for those interested in Asian history, global history and the history of Spain in the Americas." - Asian Studies Review"Scholars and other readers hoping to learn more about the Spanish presence in the Pacific especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which probably is the period least familiar to most Hispanists, will find this slim volume rewarding. . . . Readers seeking to learn more about the presence and impact of the Spanish in the Pacific . . . will find a great deal of interest here." - Historian"Navigating the Spanish Lake . . . [is] at the vanguard of a contemporary challenge to the Anglo-French centrism of Pacific colonial history." - Journal of World History

Rainer F. Buschmann is professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. Edward R. Slack Jr. is professor of history at Eastern Washington University. James B. Tueller is professor of history at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi.

Overall, the authors deserve credit for their contribution to re-centring scholarly focus on the Pacific Ocean. Attention to the complexities of the Spanish presence in the Pacific Rim and Basin provides a welcome corrective for studies that have neglected the broader dimensions of the Spanish Empire. This study is indispensable reading for those interested in Asian history, global history and the history of Spain in the Americas." - Asian Studies Review"Scholars and other readers hoping to learn more about the Spanish presence in the Pacific especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which probably is the period least familiar to most Hispanists, will find this slim volume rewarding. . . . Readers seeking to learn more about the presence and impact of the Spanish in the Pacific . . . will find a great deal of interest here." - Historian"Navigating the Spanish Lake . . . [is] at the vanguard of a contemporary challenge to the Anglo-French centrism of Pacific colonial history." - Journal of World History