John Eugene Rodriguez \'s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest Imperial City in its North American empire.
His work questions that of earlier historians, who argued that Latin America was fundamentally conse.
Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808.
John Eugene Rodriguez \'s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest Imperial City in its North American empire