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Article: Colonial Administration, Spanish
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COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, SPANISH
COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, SPANISH.
Spanish colonial institutions in the Americas evolved over decades and in various locales. In contrast to the English colonies, where religious, royal, and proprietary colonies existed concurrently, under Spanish colonial administration, proprietary, missionary, and royal colonies existed in consecutive stages. Many aspects of the colonial administration were derived from experience in the Reconquest of Spain, but even more of its workings stemmed from the experience of conquest and colonization in the New World itself.
The initial model for colonization was similar to that for the English proprietary colonies. Hern
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