Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars (repost)
Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars by Mark A. Burkholder
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1405196424 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1405196424 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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