Radical Spanish Empire - How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World

The Spanish Crown had initially hoped to establish an orderly aristocratic society in the New World. Yet from the late 1520s, Spanish and Indigenous people throughout the colonies radically challenged the social order. Surprisingly, they did so not through violence but through the power of paperwork: petitions, complaints, and legal testimony.

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jorge Masters Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 10.03.2026
• EAN: 9780674986640
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98664-0
• Seiten: 400
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Mexico, South America, Ethnic Studies, Latin America, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Caribbean islands, General & world history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600