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...

Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.

• Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
• Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
• Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
• Makes a close...