Throughout the late Spanish colonial era, the ratio of Pensacola's free citizens to enslaved was about 2 to 1, though this comparatively lower ratio was not based in philanthropy and altruism.

The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in Europe and divided Mexico with a class system that still affects today's society.

Colonial rule on site: the district administration of indigenous regions in New Spain and Peru in the 18th century. Spanish America represented a paradigmatic case of xenocracy, which followed a ...

Besides, mass emigration from Spain was always funneled to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, so there isn’t in the U.S. a diaspora, like that of the Italians or Irish, that clamors to keep ...

The 93 artifacts in “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800” reveal the sumptuous visual logic of the Spanish Empire, one of the most powerful and wide ...