The style stood in strong contrast to the French styles affected by many of the Spanish elite under the influence of the Enlightenment.

They attacked and killed both Peninsular and American born Spanish elites.

He remained in Madrid during nearly all of the Republican period, writing features about Parliament, which allowed him to mix with the Spanish political and cultural elite.

When this dawned on the Spanish elite, they pressed the King to abdicate.

Negros had become a rich province and "the local leaders were content, sharing even in many instances the social privileges of the Spanish elite."

After decades of discrimination from Spanish elites, Catalan industrialists buried their dream of leading Spain.

It was originally founded by the Jesuits in 1681 for the education of the Spanish elite.

Many of the Spanish elite ordered small numbers of slaves to work as servants in their homes.

For some reasons, never clearly established, he was persecuted by the Spanish elite in the island and jailed on various occasions.

To keep power, the Spanish and criollo elite perpetuated the idea of "Spanish" being equivalent to "civilized".