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"Spanish colonialism" as a book category covers works—fiction and nonfiction—that explore the period and processes by which the Spanish Empire established, governed, and influenced territories from the late 15th century through the 19th century (and its legacies thereafter). It includes histories of conquest, administration, missionization and settlement in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Philippines and parts of Africa; economic and social studies of encomienda, slavery, trade and plantation systems; cultural and religious exchanges, syncretism and language formation; and accounts of resistance, independence movements and the long-term political, legal and cultural consequences of colonial rule. The category spans primary sources, scholarly studies, literary reimaginations, travelogues, biographies and postcolonial critiques, often foregrounding perspectives of colonizers, colonized peoples, missionaries, indigenous communities and Afro-descendant populations, and is useful for readers interested in imperial history, cultural contact, identity formation and the roots of modern Latin American, Filipino and other societies.

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