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 centuryExplores social tension between creole and peninsular factions, connecting this friction with later colonial bids for independenceDraws on recent research by Spanish and Spanish-American historians as well as Anglophone scholarsIncludes some coverage of Brazil and British colonies
