Spanish Hegemony on its American Colonies
Prompt: Despite not having a large standing army nor ever sending a large contingent of settlers to the New World, Spain managed to maintain political control of most of its American colonies for 300 years. The concept of hegemony, a type of domination that implies a measure of consent from those at the bottom, helps explain the process by which indigenous Americans, slaves, mestizos, and women were taught to accept the principle of their racial and/or gender inferiority. Consider the various institutions of the Church and State that exerted hegemonic influence on Spain’s American subjects. What were the most important cultural, religious, political, and/or administrative institutions for the maintenance of Spanish hegemony? Why were they especially influential to particular groups? [unique_solution]Additional guidelines: Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction, body and conclusion. The introductory paragraph should include the following three parts: Context or background (2-3 sentences). You should provide context to the material you will be discussing. You should “set the scene” by providing the what, the where, the when, or the who of the material. There should be no argument here, just general historical data to set up your historical question and thesis statement. Historical problem (1-2 sentences). This should be the essay prompt reintroduced as the historical problem you will be addressing in the paper. Try to find a flow between the background information you provide and the statement of the historical problem. Why should we care about the historical facts you just discussed in the preceding background/context section of the introduction? What is their significance? Thesis statement (1-2 sentences). The thesis statement should have 2 parts. The first states your position or answer to the historical problem above, and the second provides a blueprint for the paper (or approximately three elements that will support your position in the body of the paper). ***Note: Each element in the blueprint should directly correlate to a topic sentence or main idea in a corresponding body paragraph. Body paragraphs should have topic sentences describing the main idea of the corresponding paragraph. They should echo one of your thesis elements. Sources should provide your evidence. Body paragraphs should use primary and secondary sources to support your argument. You may ONLY use the primary and secondary sources provided on CANVAS or specified in the prompt(s) above. Absolutely no outside internet sources should be used for this assignment. The specific number of sources required for each essay question is provided in the prompt(s) above. Citations: Cite any quotations, paraphrased content, or original ideas from other sources using the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Citations in CMS formatting should be written as ***Note: Sources and citations are two different things. Sources are the repositories of your information (the book, article, or historical document). Citations are references to the sources, usually with specific page numbers or locations within the source. The paper should use the minimum number of sources stated above, but it can and should have many more footnote citations. The minimum number of footnotes will equal the number of sources required, but an excellent paper will have many more specific footnote citations. ***Note: You do not need a bibliography. The first time you mention a source in a footnote citation, you should provide the full reference of the source. You should use ″Ibid″ (plus the page number, if applicable) for any series of footnotes that reference the same source. See the Purdue Online Writing Lab (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) for specific examples. Grammar and Style. Use a concise, professional and academic style of writing, free of grammatical errors and colloquialisms. Quotations: Limit quotations to 1 sentence per page or one longer quotation of 3 to 4 sentences for the whole essay. For sources you can pretty much only use this book called: Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance. At least 5 citations needed.