Reseña de: Adrian Masters, We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 319 pp. ISBN 978-100-931-541-8
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This review analyzes Adrian Masters' book "We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World," which re-examines the creation of royal legislation for American colonies in the 16th century. The author argues that the legislative process, far from being an absolutist imposition, was collective and bottom-up, involving a diversity of human and non-human actors through a system of vassal petitions. The study also explores how colonial ethno-social identification categories (indio, mestizo, mulato) were similarly created and diffused, demonstrating the complexity and erratic nature of colonial governance and re-evaluating the role of American subjects in shaping royal power Esta reseña analiza el libro "We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" de Adrian Masters, que reexamina la creación de leyes reales para las colonias americanas en el siglo XVI. El autor argumenta que el proceso legislativo, lejos de ser una imposición absolutista, fue colectivo y ascendente ("de abajo hacia arriba"), involucrando una diversidad de actores humanos y no humanos a través de un sistema de peticiones de vasallos. El estudio también explora cómo las categorías de identificación étnico-sociales coloniales (indio, mestizo, mulato) se crearon y difundieron de manera similar, mostrando la complejidad y el carácter errático de la gobernanza colonial y revalorizando el papel de los súbditos americanos en la configuración del poder real
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Quijano Velasco, Francisco. "Reseña de: Adrian Masters, We, the King. Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 319 pp. ISBN 978-100-931-541-8". Historia Mexicana, v. 75, n. 2 (1905): 920-924. Disponible en: https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/4800. Disponible en Repositorio Institucional Históricas-UNAM, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12525/9602xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-relation.ispartof
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