Brian P Owensby

Broschiertes Buch

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

Beschreibung

Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.

Autor

Brian P. Owensby is Associate Professor in the University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History. He is the author of Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil (Stanford, 1999).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780804776622
• ISBN-10: 0804776628
• Artikelnr.: 32953941