Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars?

ISBN-13: 9781405196413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str.

Mark A. Burkholder

Opis

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

Recenzje

This process, too, is explained with admirable clarity in this authoritative, sophisticated overview of a key issue in Latin American history.   (Journal of Latin American Studies, 1 October 2013)

Summing Up:  Recommended.  Upper–division undergraduates and above. (Choice, 1 September 2013)

Spis treści

List of Illustrations viii

Series Editor s Preface ix

Preface xi

Maps xvi

1 Spain and Its Early Empire in America 1

2 Native Sons and Daughters in the Church 28

3 Native Sons in Office 59

4 The Heyday of Native Sons and Daughters, circa 1630 1750 84

5 Reforms, Commentaries, and Officials, 1750 1808 110

6 The Church, Complaints, and Social Change, 1750 1808 129

7 From Abdications to Independence 149

Glossary 172

Notes 178

Suggestions for Further Reading 184

Index 193

O autorze

Mark A. Burkholder is Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.  His books include Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers in the Americas, 1687 1821 (with D. S. Chandler, 1982), Biographical Dictionary of Councilors of the Indies, 1717 1808 (1986), and Colonial Latin America, Eighth Edition (with Lyman L. Johnson, March 2012).

Blurb

Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars? introduces students to the relationships between Spaniards born in the Americas and those born in Spain. Creoles, those born in the Americas, believed that their families sacrifices made them especially qualified to fill administrative positions in the new territories; however, Iberian–born Spaniards frequently filled these posts.

Directly addressing the Americans complaint of discrimination in appointments to offices of church and state, the book examines why holding these positions was so important to creoles from the sixteenth century to independence. Spaniards in the Colonial Empire argues that patriot leaders in the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century quickly identified peninsulars as the enemy and shattered colonial elites long comprised of Spaniards born in both the Old World and the New.