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Book Review

We, the King. Creating royal legislation in the sixteenth century Spanish New World

by Adrian Masters, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 342 pp., $110 (hbk), ISBN 978-1009315418

Published online: 10 May 2024
 

Notes

1 Jonh R Searle, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press 1969) 52.

2 Just to mention a few relevant references, António M Hespanha, Vísperas del Leviatán: instituciones y poder político: Portugal, siglo XVII, Fernando Jesús Bouza Álvarez (trans) (Taurus 1989); Bartolomé Clavero, Tantas personas como estados: por una antropología política de la historia europea (Tecnos 1986); Carlos Garriga, ‘Orden jurídico y poder político en el Antiguo Régimen’ (2004), IV-16 ISTOR-Revista de Historia Internacional 13–44; Annick Lempérière, Entre Dieu et le Roi, la République. Mexico, XVIe-XIXe siècles (Les Belles-Lettres 2005).

3 Quoting Alfredo Jiménez Núñez, ‘Sistema político y legislación en la América colonial hispana: Una interpretación desde la antropología cultural’ in Congreso de Historia del Descubrimiento (1492–1556) (Real Academia de la Historia 1992) vol III, 133–64. Masters also mentions other authors on this topic, such as Tau Anzoátegui, Ots Capdequí, and Brian Owensby.

4 Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, Casuismo y Sistema. Indagación histórica sobre el espíritu del Derecho Indiano (1992) (Athenaica 2021) 39–57.

5 Luigi Nuzzo, ‘Dall’Italia alle Indie. Un viaggio del diritto comune’ (2008) 12 Rechtsgeschichte 102–124, 104.

6 Luca Mannori and Bernardo Sordi, ‘Science of Administration and Administrative Law’ in Enrico Pattaro, Damiano Canale, Paolo Grossi, Hasso Hofmann, Patrick Riley (eds), A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600–1900 (Springer 1990) 225–261, 226.

7 Ibid.

8 Luca Mannori, ‘Justicia y Administración entre Antiguo y Nuevo Régimen’ (2007) 15 Revista Jurídica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 125–146, 132.

9 Carlos Garriga, ‘Gobierno y Justicia: el gobierno de la justicia’, in Marta Lorente (ed), La jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa en España. Una historia de sus orígenes (Consejo General del Poder Judicial 2008) 47–113.

10 For English, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/legislation?q=legislation. For Spanish, Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico de la Lengua Española, available at https://www.rae.es/.

11 Alejandro Agüero, ‘Historia del derecho y categorías jurídicas’ (2007) II-16 Revista jurídica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 135–144.

12 Serge Gruzinski, La colonisation de l’imaginaire. Sociétés indigènes et occidentalisation dans le Mexique espagnol: XVI–XVII siècle (Gallimard 1988), referred in this way to the processes of Westernisation of the cultural representations of native peoples. Masters (36, 223) mainly criticises the use of this approach by Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance. Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (U Michigan Press 1995).

13 Robert A Williams Jr, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought. The Discourses of Conquest (OUP 1990) 14–58.

14 Juan de Solórzano Pereyra, Política Indiana (1648) (Mateo Sacristán 1736), vol I, 217.

15 Williams (n 13) 91.

16 Luigi Nuzzo, Il linguaggio giuridico della Conquista. Strategie di controllo nelle Indie Spagnole (Jovene 2004) 34–51.

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