Global Spanish Empire

Christine D. Beaule is an associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she serves as director of the General Education Office. She researches Spanish colonialism in Latin America and Southeast Asia. She is the editor of Frontiers of Colonialism.John G. Douglass is a vice president at Statistical Research Inc. and an adjunct professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He studies colonialism in California, the American Southwest, and Mesoamerica. He most recently co-edited Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California.

“This volume is unique in taking on a challenge rarely seen—detailed studies of Spanish colonialism on a truly global scale, including the Americas, the Philippines, the South Pacific Islands, and West Africa.”—Jeffrey Hantman, co-editor of Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America“The volume maps the haphazard development of the colonial Spanish Empire, focusing on how indigenous and enslaved populations carved and crafted their own spaces through persistence and imaginative place-making strategies.”—Mariah F. Wade, author of Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices“The resulting collection, organized largely chronologically, offers a rich and wide-ranging survey of local experiences with Spanish colonialism, with special focus on diverse Indigenous people’s dynamic strategies of response, resistance, and adaptation. Contributors steer away from homogenizing, static, or essentialist conceptions of identity and social practice, instead stressing the heterogeneity, complexity, and continuous evolution of communities and their intersections with one another.”–Christine Delucia, H-Net:Humanities Social Sciences Online (H-LatAm)"The Global Spanish Empire is an ambitious project and one with a very broad geographical scope. Many academic collaborations on the Spanish Empire confine themselves to Latin America and the North American borderlands. Refreshingly, the Beaule and Douglass volume is equally attentive to the Spanish Pacific."—Sean F. McEnroe, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Place Making and Pluralism in the Global Spanish EmpireChristine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass1. Contact, Colonialism, and the Fragments of Empire: Portugal, Spain, and the Iberian Moment in West AfricaChristopher R. DeCorse2. Colonization, Transformations, and Indigenous Cultural Persistence in the CaribbeanCorinne L. Hofman, Roberto ValcÁrcel Rojas, and Jorge Ulloa Hung3. Native American Responses to Spanish Contact and Colonialism in the American SouthChristopher B. Rodning, Michelle M. Pigott, and Hannah G. Hoover4. Pluralism and Persistence in the Colonial Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, MexicoStacie M. King5. A Tense Convivencia: Place Making, Pluralism, and Violence in Early Spanish Central AmericaLaura Matthew and William R. Fowler6. When the Saints Go Marching In: Religious Place Making during the Early Spanish Colonial Period in the Central Andes, 1532–1615Kevin Lane7. The People of Solomon: Performance in Cross-Cultural Contacts between Spanish and Melanesians in the Southwest Pacific, 1568 and 1595Martin Gibbs and David Roe8. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the Colonial Period PhilippinesStephen Acabado and Grace Barretto-Tesoro9. Colonial Surveillance, LÅnchos, and the Perpetuation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guam, Mariana IslandsJames M. Bayman, Boyd M. Dixon, Sandra MontÓn-SubÍas, and Natalia Moragas Segura10. Contested Geographies: Place-Making Strategies among the Indigenous Groups of South Texas and Northeastern MexicoSteve A. Tomka11. Importing Ethnicity, Creating Culture: Currents of Opportunity and Ethnogenesis along the Dagua River in Nueva Granada, ca. 1764Juliet WiersemaContributorsIndex