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

ISBN-13: 9781009315418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 342 str.

Germany) Master Adrian (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen

Opis

Reveals how ordinary subjects in the New World aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire.

Recenzje

'Adrian Masters masterfully unpacks the powerful legal fiction of the King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies, demonstrating that the world's first global empire was a contingent and collective enterprise made by paper-peddling brokers and subalterns. A must read for anyone interested in the early modern history of empires and governance.' Mark Thurner, author of History's Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography

Spis treści

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.