We, the King - Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World

"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 "bottom up". An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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 “bottom up”. An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Masters, Adrian (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubing Masters, Adrian (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen Masters, Adrian (Universitat Trier Masters
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009315418
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931541-8
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, LAW / Annotations & Citations, Legal History, Legislation, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Central / national / federal government policies, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Central government policies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Sources of law: legislation