Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices,
and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within
the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early
nineteenth centuries.
- Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial power, beginning in the
sixteenth century
- Explores social tension between creole and peninsular factions,
connecting this friction with later colonial bids for independence
- Draws on recent research by Spanish and Spanish-American historians as
well as Anglophone scholars
- Includes some coverage of Brazil and British colonies