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"Spanish colonization" as a book category covers works—both nonfiction and historical fiction—that examine Spain’s imperial expansion from the late 15th century through the 19th century across the Americas, the Caribbean, the Philippines and other overseas possessions. It includes military and political histories of conquest and administration (viceroyalties, the Laws of the Indies), economic studies of encomienda, plantation and mercantile systems, and social and cultural analyses of missions, religion, language, mestizaje and daily life under colonial rule. The category also embraces perspectives from indigenous peoples, enslaved populations, colonists, missionaries and women, as well as primary-source collections (chronicles, letters, legal records), art and architectural studies, and historiographical debates about resistance, reform and legacy. Readers can expect works that illuminate how Spanish imperial institutions shaped global exchange, power, identity and long-term consequences still visible in former colonies today.

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