The 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.

Info autore

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of How to Write the History of the New World, Puritan Conquistadors, and Nature, Empire, and Nation.Adrian Masters is Project Leader in the Department of History at Trier University and the author of We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.03.2026
• EAN: 9780674986640
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98664-0
• Illustrazioni: 24 photos, 2 maps, Karten
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; 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