Screen LibraryNew world orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial americas /
New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2005] ©2005 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Early american studies
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| Summary: |
New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 6 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812290004 |
| Index Number: | E18 |
| CLC: | K703 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas / Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1. Law's Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History / Chapter 2. Dialogical Encounters in a Space of Death / Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 3. The Authority of Gender: Marital Discord and Social Order in Colonial Quito / Chapter 4. Private and State Violence Against African Slaves in Lower Louisiana During the French Period, 1699-1769 / Chapter 5. Violence or Sex? Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America / Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 6. The Murder of Jacob Rabe: Contesting Dutch Colonial Authority in the Borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Chapter 7. Forging Cultures of Resistance on Two Colonial Frontiers: Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Chapter 8. Sorcery and Sovereignty: Senecas, Citizens, and the Contest for Power and Authority on the Frontiers of the Early American Republic / Introduction to Part IV -- Chapter 9. Early Modern Spanish Citizenship: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Old and the New World / Chapter 10. Natural Movements and Dangerous Spectacles: Beatings, Duels, and "Play" in Saint Domingue / Chapter 11. Racial Passing: Informal and Official "Whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Afterword / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |