Description: 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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EAN: 9781009315418
UPC: 9781009315418
ISBN: 9781009315418
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Item Weight: 0.35 kg
Book Title: We, the King : Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth Century Spanish New World
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: General, Latin America / General
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, History
Author: Adrian Masters
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
Format: Hardcover
