Adrian Masters (Germany Universitat Trier)

We, the King

Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how its policies, racial categories, and society were created from the â bottom upâ . An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781009315418
• ISBN-10: 1009315412
• Artikelnr.: 66125967

Autorenporträt

Adrian Masters is Director of the University of Trier's GloVib: Global Entanglements Project. Raised in rural Costa Rica, he has written several award-winning articles on Spanish imperial history.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Peruvian pestizo at the Spanish Court
Introduction: the collective making of an empire
1. Paper ceremonies for a global empire: Gobierno petitions and the collective work of Voluntad
2. The co-creation of the Imperial Logistics Network
3. Distant kings, powerful women, prudent ministers: the gendered creation of the Council of the Indies
4. Lawmaking in a portable council: Gobierno decision-making technologies before 1561
5. 'Bring the Papers:' Royal decision-making and the power of archives in Madrid, 1561¿1598
6. Creating the royal decree: format, phraseology, and petitioners' transformation of Indies law
7. Pedro Rengifo's epilogue: subjects of chance
Conclusions
Index.