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