The Spanish Empire in America

Haring, C. H., The Spanish Empire in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Reviewed in The English Historical Review © 1948 and The Americas © 1947.

From the author’s Foreword:

The following pages endeavor to bring together within the compass of a single volume what we know about the institutional history of the Spanish colonies in America from the Discovery in 1492 down to the Wars of Independence. They are concerned with the transfer of Spanish modes of government and society from the Old World to the New, and with their evolution in a remote and very different American environment. (…) As a history of institutions the volume leans more to description than to narrative. Throughout, however, the concept of development has been kept clearly in view.