We, the King : creating royal legislation in the sixteenth-century Spanish new world
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We, the King : creating royal legislation in the sixteenth-century Spanish new world
(Cambridge Latin American studies, 127)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Glossary: p. 270-273
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table 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.
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