Global Spanish Empire

Christine D. Beaule is an associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where she serves as director of the General Education Office. She researches Spanish colonialism in Latin America and Southeast Asia. She is the editor of Frontiers of Colonialism.John G. Douglass is a vice president at Statistical Research Inc. and an adjunct professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He studies colonialism in California, the American Southwest, and Mesoamerica. He most recently co-edited Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Place Making and Pluralism in the Global Spanish Empire1. Contact, Colonialism, and the Fragments of Empire: Portugal, Spain, and the Iberian Moment in West Africa2. Colonization, Transformations, and Indigenous Cultural Persistence in the Caribbean3. Native American Responses to Spanish Contact and Colonialism in the American South4. Pluralism and Persistence in the Colonial Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico5. A Tense Convivencia: Place Making, Pluralism, and Violence in Early Spanish Central America6. When the Saints Go Marching In: Religious Place Making during the Early Spanish Colonial Period in the Central Andes, 1532–16157. The People of Solomon: Performance in Cross-Cultural Contacts between Spanish and Melanesians in the Southwest Pacific, 1568 and 15958. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the Colonial Period Philippines9. Colonial Surveillance, LÅnchos, and the Perpetuation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guam, Mariana Islands10. Contested Geographies: Place-Making Strategies among the Indigenous Groups of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico11. Importing Ethnicity, Creating Culture: Currents of Opportunity and Ethnogenesis along the Dagua River in Nueva Granada, ca. 1764ContributorsIndex

This volume is unique in taking on a challenge rarely seen - detailed studies of Spanish colonialism on a truly global scale, including the Americas, the Philippines, South Pacific Islands, and West Africa." - Jeffrey Hantman, author of Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and the Making of America"The volume maps the haphazard development of the colonial Spanish Empire, focusing on how Indigenous and enslaved populations carved and crafted their own spaces through persistence and imaginative place-making strategies." - Mariah Wade, author of Missions, Missionaries and Native Americas: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices