Empire of law and Indian justice in colonial Mexico / Brian P. Owensby.

Author
Owensby, Brian Philip, 1959- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Description
x, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    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).
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-365) and index.
    Contents
    • Opening
    • Ordering the circumstances of encounter
    • Help us and protect us
    • Precarious possessions
    • Liberty, not servitude
    • Of guilt and punishment
    • Voices in the republic
    • Rebellious subjects
    • Summation and beyond.
    ISBN
    • 9780804758635 ((paperback))
    • 0804758638 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2007028909
    OCLC
    156874724
    Other standard number
    • 99821131659
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