The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642. The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xii + 299pp, bibliography, notes, index, very good in dustjacket. Taiwan in the seventeenth century was a pivotal site of conflict between the expansionist Dutch and Spanish colonial empires. This book examines the economic and religious motives which brought the Spaniards to Taiwan..... More