Spaniards in the colonial empire

About this book

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. It explores social tension between creole and peninsular factions, connection this friction with later colonial bids for independence. The scholarship draws on recent research by Spanish and Spanish-American historians as well as Anglophone scholars, and is written in a style accessible for undergraduates and other non-specialists. -- Publisher's website.