Spain’s America: from kingdoms to colonies.

The article discusses how Spaniards born in Europe (peninsulars) and the Indies (creoles) identified Spain's mainland possessions in the Americas during its centuries of rule. It emphasizes that the shift to relabeling the "kingdoms" as "colonies" effectively started in Spain in the 1760s. It states that this change reflected the latter term's growing popularity there via translated foreign publications, as well as some royal ministers' ambitions to modernize the empire.