I assume you haven't read the book, because that's the thing he explains in the first pages...
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As far as running the New World Empire is concerned, I learned everything I needed to know from C.H. Haring's "Spanish Empire in America". It is a bit old (quite old in fact), but it really hasn't been superseded IMO (at least not in English).