Spanish Colonial Culture
An important source for information about Spanish colonial culture in general is the vast corpus of books and other publications that are contemporary with that era. In today's increasingly digital age, not only are many of these often rare books available freely online, but they are also searchable through optical character recognition (OCR) and artificial intelligence (AI) software. Some of the most substantial collections are listed below.
Google Books (this search page is set up for searches of free digitized books dating prior to 1920)
Internet Archive (this search page is set up for searches of digitized books dating to between 1492 and 1920)
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (a searchable collection of digitized books from the National Library of Spain)
Biblioteca Digital Real Academia de la Historia (a searchable collection of digitized books from the Spanish Royal Academy of History)
Banco de España Library (a very large collection of digitized books dealing with finance, trade, law, and much more)
For more specific topical overviews, including thematically-organized links to many digitized colonial-era books, below are links to an assortment of pages exploring different aspects of Spanish culture during the colonial era as relating to Spanish Florida.
This list will be in occasional expansion as I add topics and material to the site.
Another excellent source of information about Spanish colonial culture can be found in its