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portada Empire of law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
392
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN
804776628
ISBN13
9780804776622
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Empire of law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

Brian P. Owensby (Author) · Stanford University Press · Paperback

Empire of law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico - Owensby, Brian P.

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Synopsis "Empire of law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico "

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Several chapters elucidate central concepts of Indian claimants in their encounter with the law over the seventeenth century--royal protection, possession of property, liberty, notions of guilt, village autonomy and self-rule, and subjecthood. Owensby concludes that Indian engagement with Spanish law was the first early modern experiment in cosmopolitan legality, one that faced the problem of difference head on and sought to bridge the local and the international. In so doing, it enabled indigenous claimants to forge a colonial politics of justice that opened up space for a conversation between colonial rulers and ruled.

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