We, the King : creating royal legislation in the sixteenth-century Spanish new world / Adrian Masters.
2023
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Title
We, the King : creating royal legislation in the sixteenth-century Spanish new world / Adrian Masters.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 127.
Formatted Contents Note
Prelude : a Peruvian mestizo at the Spanish Court
Introduction : the collective making of an empire
Paper ceremonies for a global empire : Gobierno petitions and the collective work of Voluntad
The co-creation of the imperial logistics network
Distant kings, powerful women, prudent ministers : the gendered creation of the Council of the Indies
Lawmaking in a portable council : Gobierno decision-making technologies before 1561
'Bring the papers' : royal decision-making and the power of archives in Madrid, 1561-1598
Creating the royal decree : format, phraseology, and petitioners' transformation of Indies Law
Pedro Rengifo's epilogue : subjects of chance
Conclusions.
Introduction : the collective making of an empire
Paper ceremonies for a global empire : Gobierno petitions and the collective work of Voluntad
The co-creation of the imperial logistics network
Distant kings, powerful women, prudent ministers : the gendered creation of the Council of the Indies
Lawmaking in a portable council : Gobierno decision-making technologies before 1561
'Bring the papers' : royal decision-making and the power of archives in Madrid, 1561-1598
Creating the royal decree : format, phraseology, and petitioners' transformation of Indies Law
Pedro Rengifo's epilogue : subjects of chance
Conclusions.
Summary
We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. During the viceregal period spanning the post-1492 conquest until 1598, the King signed more than 110,000 pages of decrees concerning state policies, minutiae, and everything in between. Through careful analysis of these decrees, Adrian Masters illustrates how law-making was aided and abetted by subjects from various backgrounds, including powerful court women, indigenous commoners, Afro-descendant raftsmen, secret saboteurs, pirates, sovereign Chiriguano Indians, and secretaries' wives. Subjects' innumerable petitions and labor prompted - and even phrased - a complex body of legislation and legal categories demonstrating the degree to which this empire was created from the "bottom up". Innovative and unique, We, the King reimagines our understandings of kingship, imperial rule, colonialism, and the origins of racial categories.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781009315425 (ebook)
9781009315418 (hardback)
9781009315401 (paperback)
9781009315418 (hardback)
9781009315401 (paperback)
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