UID:
kobvindex_DGP1843521202
Format:
Online-Ressource
,
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ISBN:
9781009315425
Series Statement:
Cambridge Latin American studies 127
Content:
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.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 274 - 310
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009315418
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009315401
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Masters, Adrian, - 1988- We, the King Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009315418
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009315401
Language:
English
Keywords:
Spanien
;
Kolonie
;
Gesetzgebung
;
Geschichte 1500-1600
DOI:
10.1017/9781009315425
