...This chapter details the voyages of Fray García Jofre de Loaisa and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón. Loaisa was a prominent military commander selected by King Charles to lead a fleet that would confirm the Spanish claim to the Spice Islands. With seven ships and 450 men, the new armada was larger...

... coexistence with Native Americans, the New World as a Protestant Holy Land, and, in his later life, trade with the Spice Islands....

..., and soldiers who manned the ships. The book contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home...

... to the Spice Islands. This book explores Renaissance action in the East which is observed through different perspectives not only in the Philippines but also in Taiwan: belligerent national affirmation, intellectual interrogation, ethnological encounters, colonial construction, economic expansion, and Counter...

... that voyages to the Spice Islands could be profitable. Carleton Dudley Chamberlain John East India Company Guiana expeditions to Roe Thomas Smythe Thomas South America expeditions to Guiana Travel and exploration of Cape Breton Hakluyt Richard arguments for colonization Printing impact of Purchas...

..., a map of the Spice Islands by Petrus Plancius, cartographer for the Dutch East India Company, and employs legal and art historical frames of analysis to consider the role of art and image in international law. colonialism international law generally maps sovereignty art images navigation Wood...

... to claim the Spice Islands but ultimately conceded them to Portugal, shifting its focus to the Philippines. Finally, the chapter examines the rise of the English and Dutch East India Companies, which broke Iberian monopolies and ushered in a new era of European colonial competition. Bahadur Shah sultan...