"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
