I'm not on board with this book review, but....

This first line certainly caught my attention as it would relate to the argument I'm making for our class:

"In the great Iberian empires of the 16th and 17th centuries, a career was already avail-able in global administration not very different from the lives of the bankers or lawyers who globe-trot today."

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/the-pacific-ocean-really-was-mare-incognitum-for-the-early-navigators/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20161001_Culture_House_37