The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation.

Christine D. Beaule is an associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 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.