Episode 381: How the Indigenous and Other Non-Elites Challenged the Spanish Empire
In this episode of Diverse Voices Book Review, host Hopeton Hay speaks with historians Jorge Cañizares‑Esguerra and Adrian Masters, co‑authors of THE RADICAL SPANISH EMPIRE: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World. Their groundbreaking research overturns the familiar narrative of Spanish conquest and reveals a hidden history of Indigenous agency, political strategy, and bottom‑up power.
Drawing on hundreds of thousands of archival documents, the authors show how Indigenous people, commoners, Afro‑descendants, and even women used petitions, lawsuits, denunciations, and paperwork to…
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