Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Colección: Cambridge Latin American studies
Número de páginas: 342 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-03-2023
EAN: 9781009315418
ISBN: 978-1-009-31541-8
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book 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.