Screen LibraryWe, 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 underst...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Latin American studies ;
127 |
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| 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"-- |
| Item Description: | Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Texas, at Austin, 2018) issued under title: Creating Law in the Spanish Empire : Petitioners, Royal Decrees, and the Council of the Indies, 1524-1598. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-310) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009315418 1009315412 9781009315401 1009315404 |
| Index Number: | KG593 |
| CLC: | D973.09 |
| Call Number: | D973.09/M423 |
| Contents: |
Prelude : a Peruvian mestizo at the Spanish Court -- Introduction : the collective making of an empire -- Paper ceremonies for a global empire : Gobierno petitions and the collective work of Voluntad -- The co-creation of the imperial logistics network -- Distant kings, powerful women, prudent ministers : the gendered creation of the Council of the Indies -- Lawmaking in a portable council : Gobierno decision-making technologies before 1561 -- 'Bring the papers' : royal decision-making and the power of archives in Madrid, 1561-1598 -- Creating the royal decree : format, phraseology, and petitioners' transformation of Indies Law -- Pedro Rengifo's epilogue : subjects of chance -- |