For a work cited more than once, the full title with place and date of publication is given at its first appearance, with a short title in brackets, thus: E. C. Chapman, A History of California: The Spanish Phase (New York 1921) [California]. This full reference is repeated for every chapter in which the work recurs. Where several places of publication appear on the title page, only the first so listed is given. Where citations are from a paperback edition, the name of the series is given: A. L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England (Cardinal ed. London 1973). Where it appears significant, the original date of reprinted works is indicated. It is worth noting that when the place of publication is Berkeley, this normally implies the University of California Press; Amsterdam, Israel; Harmondsworth, Pelicans or Penguins and their brood.
Sub-titles of articles in journals are sometimes omitted, when they add nothing to the point.
A few works are so often cited that they are referred to by author's or editor's name only:
| Blair & Robertson | E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson, The Philippine Islands 1493–1803[–1898], 55 volumes, Cleveland 1903–9; reprinted in Manila, c. 1962. |
| Chaunu | Huguette and Pierre Chaunu, Séville et l'Atlantique (1504–1650), 8 volumes in 12 tomes, SEVPEN, Paris 1955–60—a mighty work based on the analysis of 17,761 trans-Atlantic voyages. The first seven tomes, by both authors, are the ‘Partie statistique’, including a volume of graphics; the last four form the ‘Partie interpretative’ by Pierre alone. The most important for this book is Tome VIII.1 (CXXV+1212 pages), Les structures géographiques, and unless otherwise stated all references are to this one. |
| Hakluyt | R. Hakluyt (ed.), The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation …, London 1589. All references are to the Everyman edition in eight volumes, London 1907. |
- xx - Abbreviations for periodicals are self-explanatory, except for:
| HAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review, 1918+. |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror, 1911+. |
and also:
| HS 1st | Publications of the Hakluyt Society, First Series 1847–1899, |
| (2nd) Ser. | Second Series, 1899+ (serial number also given). |
Translations are by myself, except when quoted from previously Englished works as indicated in the notes.
A formal bibliography of works consulted would be inordinately long, and unless made longer by being turned into a catalogue raisonnée would add little of value to the documentation in the notes. ‘To end a book with a display of the machinery by which it has been assembled is to stress the toil which has gone into its making, not the pleasure’—C. M. Rourke, quoted in G. Seldes, The Stammering Century (Colophon ed., New York 1965), 412. The machinery and the toil of the making of this book are adequately illustrated in its notes; and some of them will reflect, and I hope give, the pleasure.
This seems the appropriate place to mention two works not directly drawn upon but covering some of the same ground as my own. O. Hardy and G. S. Dumke, A History of the Pacific in Modern Times (Boston 1949), is a soberly researched college text; its Pacific includes a lengthy treatment of China, surely continental rather than oceanic, but per contra nothing on Pacific Spanish America after Independence: a stout effort, but routine in its approach and at times naïve in interpretation. C. Hartley Grattan, The Southwest Pacific to 1800 (Ann Arbor 1963), combines a clear narrative with lively and intelligent comment, though its sequel—Since 1800—seems written rather more con amore. Finally, the encyclopaedic four volumes of the (British) Naval Intelligence Division's Geographical Handbook on the Pacific Islands (1943–5) form an indispensable vade mecum for factual information on Oceania.