Misfortunes of Alonso Ramï¿½rez The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates

Name: Misfortunes of Alonso Ramï¿½rez The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates
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ISBN: 9780292743892

ISBN-10: 0292743890

ISBN-13: 9780292743892

Edition: 2011

Authors: Fabio Lï¿½pez Lï¿½zaro, Fabio Lï¿½pez Lï¿½zaro

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In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírezdescribed the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates.The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírezhas long been regarded as a work of fiction--in fact, as Latin America's first novel--but Fabio López Lázaro makes a…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

FABIO Lï¿½PEZ Lï¿½ZARO is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Crime in Early Bourbon Madrid (1700-1808): An Analysis of the Royal Judicial Court's Casebook. His research publications focus on legal and maritime history between 1300 and 1800 and on the interaction between Western European empires and the Americas, Asia, and the Islamic World.

FABIO LÃ“PEZ LÃZARO is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Crime in Early Bourbon Madrid (1700-1808): An Analysis of the Royal Judicial Court's Casebook. His research publications focus on legal and maritime history between 1300 and 1800 and on the interaction between Western European empires and the Americas, Asia, and the Islamic World.