The radical Spanish empire : how paperwork politics remade the New World / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Author.

Masters, Adrian, 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--New Spain--History--16th century.

Radicalism.

Lawfare--New Spain--History--16th century--Sources.

Lawfare.

New Spain--History--16th century.

New Spain.

New Spain--Social conditions--16th century.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration--History--16th century--Sources.

Spain.

New Spain--Archival resources.

Radicalism--History.

Physical Description:

vi, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"The Spanish Crown had initially hoped to establish an orderly aristocratic society in the New World. Yet from the late 1520s, Spanish and Indigenous people throughout the colonies radically challenged the social order. Surprisingly, they did so not through violence but through the power of paperwork: petitions, complaints, and legal testimony."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. A World Upside Down

The Empire that Wasn't: Lawfare and the Fall of Indies Seigneurialism

Guns, Horses, & Paperwork: Anti-Slavery & the Making of the Ladino Borderlands

The Conquest of Everything: Gracia Paperwork and New World Knowledge

The Traps of Doubt: Skepticism and Radical Politics in the New World

The Conquest of Archives: From Society of Disorder to Society of Orders

Conclusion. Ladinoamérica's Radicalism in Invisible Ink.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge Radical Spanish Empire

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780674986640

0674986644

OCLC:

1521150800

Publisher Number:

CIPO000338965