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Summer History Talks: Spanish Mining Activities in North America and the Chinese Sink

Live Presentation via Zoom
Virtual Screening Room
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 12:00 PM
Arizona / Mountain Standard Time
Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Andrés Reséndez for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!

Cortés famously led campaigns that brought down the Aztec Empire in 1521. Far less known is his subsequent career as a silver baron and transpacific explorer. This presentation will focus on the connections between Spain’s mining activities in North America during the sixteenth century and the development of the Manila Galleon, as American silver sustained a durable transpacific relationship with silver-starved China.

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Andrés Reséndez is a professor of history and author who grew up in Mexico City and currently teaches at the University of California at Davis. His specialties are early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific Ocean. His previous book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. His latest book, Conquering the Pacific (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), is about the first expedition to go from America to Asia and back, thus transforming the Pacific Ocean into a vital space of contact and exchange.